Carmen Maria Machado on 'Thérèse and Isabelle,' which is rife with what she calls “the delicious physicality of sex”
after being deemed too controversial and did not appear in full until it was published as aOne passage in particular, which you can read below, captures both the lust and the fraught power dynamics of Thérèse and Isabelle’s relationship. In trying to satisfy Isabelle, Thérèse is at her mercy, following her directions in order to deliver pleasure.
My tongue was searching in the salty darkness, in the sticky darkness, over fragile flesh. The more I labored, the more mysterious became my efforts. I hesitated around the pearl.“Yes, yes,” moaned Isabelle. “You’re there, you’re there,” she cried in ecstasy. “Go on. Please … there … yes, there … just there …”“You don’t want to guide me,” I said, alone outside our universe of fantasy.“I’m doing nothing else,” she said. “You’re not thinking about what you’re doing.
“It’s started. It’s starting. It’s rising. Through my legs, through my legs … Yes, my love, yes. Forever … go on … In my knees, in my knees …”She fell silent. I was submerged and swept away with her. There were stigmata in my guts.
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