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13 января 2014 г., 09:57
‘It is not even Miss... «The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet»
‘It is not even Miss Aibagawa after whom you lust, in truth. It is the genus, “The Oriental Woman” who so infatuates you. Yes, yes, the mysterious eyes, the camellias in her hair, what you perceive as meekness. How many hundreds of you besotted white men have I seen mired in the same syrupy hole?’
‘You are wrong, for once, Doctor. There’s no-’
‘Naturally, I am wrong: Domburger ’s adoration for his Pearl of the East is based on chivalry: behold the disfigured damsel, spurned by her own race! Behold our Occidental Knight, who alone divines her inner beauty!’
