My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Bataille

Author:Georges Bataille
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780241215869
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-05-07T06:00:00+00:00

But words meant nothing to us any longer. Looking at each other, what was finally disturbing was to see how our gazes swam; as if we were returning from another world. In our stinging desire, we had not even the strength to smile.

‘I want to get out of these clothes,’ Hansi said. ‘Come into my bedroom and I’ll go and change in the bathroom, you can talk to me through the doorway.’

The same childish itch had hold of us both.

‘These boots won’t come off for me,’ she wailed.

She had to ring for her maid. She had then to show impatience. After that she was rid of her boots in a trice.

She reappeared in a filmy lace wrap. She slid into my arms, said, her mouth offering itself already, ‘My whole body hungers to give itself to you, can’t you feel it? I won’t dress since after lunch we shall get into bed … Is that going to be all right?’

Disquiet, I understood, was to season this happiness. Without sensing any need to hide the fact from her servant, Hansi was able to give herself to me, a stranger. The sole explanation was that she was accustomed to doing so.

Hansi anticipated my unspoken questions. ‘Pierre, Pierre, I’m so in love, I’m so on tenterhooks I have hardly taken time to speak to you. I misled you a while ago. I realize that now.’

I waited for the rest.

‘Don’t be downcast. You are not my first lover, that I did tell you. Very soon you shall be my third. But I’m going to keep you. With the two others it lasted only a night. One thing, though …’

‘What one thing?’

‘I said I had no vices, hated vice. It isn’t true, not exactly. Yet in a sense it is true, at least for me. Maybe it isn’t a vice. I have a very attractive maid. Or don’t you think so?

‘You have gone red in the face. Would that mean you are already considering being unfaithful to me? I told you I was made for pleasure. You have been wondering what I do for a living. I don’t do anything, I have an income that takes care of everything, leaving me independent; but if I didn’t have Lulu I’d probably give myself to anyone who happened along. I don’t like being alone when night falls.’

I let out a groan.

‘Last night?’

‘You are all unhappy. You’re jealous?’

‘I wouldn’t want you to have lied to me.’

‘Last night I took twice the ordinary dose to go to sleep but nothing worked. Early this morning, to ease the desire I had for you I toyed with the idea of doing to myself what you’d have done if you’d been there. And I’d have done it, and I wouldn’t have felt sorry afterwards. I’d have told you afterwards, you’d have forgiven me. But instead I decided to get up and go for a ride in the park and to run the crazy creature’s excitement out of her. Now I have your arms, I have your lips, I am the next thing to naked.

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