His words are reported through the diaries of other characters, so that we are never given his intimate conviction about what is really taking place, until he informs the main protagonists. ... There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive .I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. ... This symbolic interpretation is confirmed by Seward's account of it, which seems to evoke reference to a first sexual experience: "No man knows till he exp...

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