Lorenz and Lawrence

...they [antlers - vs] are required by the females as optical releasers. A.B. Bubenik has demonstrated that with an artificial and exaggeratedly large set of deer antlers a man can enrica away the entire harem of the strongest local buck. - The Waning of Humaneness by Konrad Lorenz

"You want to go in my caravan, now, and wash your hands?"

The childlike, sleep-waking eyes of her moment of perfect virginity looked into his, unseeing. She was only aware of the dark, strange effluence of him bathing her limbs, washing her at last purely will-less. She was aware of him, as a dark, complete power.

"I think I might," she said.

- The Virgin and the Gipsy by D.H. Lawrence

не так просто, конечно, но по смыслу - то же самое. releasers.

интересно, говоря о Fanny and Alexander кто-нибудь упоминал The Virgin and the Gipsy? Google по этому поводу ничего не говорит. и - еще раз - Господа Головлевы, конечно. But a family!--an awful, smelly family that would never disperse, stuck half dead round the base of a fungoid old woman! How was one to cope with that?