On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 19:30, Mark A. Mandel wrote: > The sexual masochism of the narrator is central to her character and to the > plot, but it is not the point of the book. The author does not dwell in (gory, > juicy, sickening... take your pick) detail on those scenes, any more than Gene > Wolfe luxuriates in torture scenes in his Shadow of the Torturer tetralogy. Well put. That was my recation as well.