Eyes wide open, mouth shut.

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July 9, 2009

“You are not surprised to see me.”

“I expected you tonight.”

She raised her hand, bending her elbow with a tight economy of motion, the bare minimum needed, and flung her hat across to a table. The hat’s long flightshowed the violence in that controlled jerk of her wrist.

He asked: “What do you want?”

She answered: “You know what I want,” her voice heavy and flat.

“Yes. But I want to hear you say it. All of it.”

“If you wish.” Her voice had the sound of efficiency, obeying an order with metallic precision. “I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin, your mouth, your hands. I want you–like this–not hysterical with desire–but coldly and consciously–without dignity and without regrets–I want you–I have no self-respect to bargain with me and divide me–I want you–I want you like an animal, or a cat on a fence, or a whore.”

She spoke on a single, level tone, as if she were reciting an austere catechism of faith. She stood without moving, her feet in flat shoes planted apart, her shoulders thrown back, her arms hanging straight at her sides. She looked impersonal, untouched by the words she pronounced, chaste like a young boy.

[Excerpt from The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, 1943]

This is what I call romance.

Come. Find me.

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