The Vivisector (Penguin Classics) by Patrick White; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction)

Author:Patrick White; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction) [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literary, Painters, Classics, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780143105671
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2014-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

Dear Hurtle,

Although I have in my head a letter explaining my behaviour the day of our visit, I hesitate to write it down for fear that my argument will not convince you.

Because, for certain reasons, I always fail in love, I was hoping to experience a kind of voluptuous fulfilment through those I love, but suddenly felt in myself the old excruciating disgust, as though I were helping destroy something which might never be recovered, by letting the enemy into the last stronghold of purity.

If I appear to have behaved deceitfully in the beginning towards Cosma Pavloussis in spite of my affection for him, it is because most men have minds and interests which prevent them understanding their wives’ actual needs, whether sensual or psychic. I still believe this, and with anyone but Hero might have been prepared to finish the game. Now it is you who are the loser, Hurtle. I am not—I have to admit if I am honest—because I shall still enjoy in Hero the delicacy which at the last moment I resisted handing over, and which only another woman is capable of appreciating.

Affectionately yours,

OLIVIA D.

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