Part 3, Chapter 8, “The Wrath of Diana” (p. 337).
Jack Glass (2012)
“Inevitably linked with the moment of climax, there is a minor rupture suggestive of death; and conversely the idea of death may play a part in setting sensuality in motion.”
Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality (1962), p. 107
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