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overwhelmed by the monotonous insistence topic/female-subjugation

As soon as we got to our apartment and closed the door we began to make love. At first it was very pleasurable, but the day reserved for me yet another surprising fact. Antonio, my first boyfriend, when he rubbed against me was quick and intense; Franco made great efforts to contain himself but at …

—p.230 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3) by Elena Ferrante
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solitude seemed to me a consolation prize topic/female-subjugation

As for Pietro, the condoms dulled his sensitivity even more, and it took him even longer to reach orgasm, which made him suffer, and made me suffer. Sometimes I made him take me from behind, I had the impression that it was less painful, and while he dealt those violent blows I grabbed his hand and…

—p.253 by Elena Ferrante
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the important thing is to be together for/pq topic/love

Gianni approached them almost by instinct, he’s a generous man. I said there’s no room, we have the children, how are we going to fit. The two got in, they were English, he graying, in his forties, she surely less than thirty. At first I was hostile, taciturn, it complicated the trip for me, I woul…

—p.81 The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
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the important thing is to be together for/pq topic/love

Gianni approached them almost by instinct, he’s a generous man. I said there’s no room, we have the children, how are we going to fit. The two got in, they were English, he graying, in his forties, she surely less than thirty. At first I was hostile, taciturn, it complicated the trip for me, I woul…

—p.81 by Elena Ferrante
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the vexed intersection of communism and boys project/modern-mandarins

What first got me hooked on the Neapolitan novels, almost from the start of My Brilliant Friend, was the way in which the many things Lenu and Lila fervently desire—books, money, power, knowledge, experience, boys, sex, beautiful objects, political change, respect, escape, superiority, each other—r…

—p.239 The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism Appendix: Guest Letters (229) missing author