How we cite our quotes: (Part.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #7
'"Always" has no force here. I haven't been with a woman for many years. This privilege is unwonted and unexpected. And I cannot rise to it.' (1.19.52-54)
Check out Bradley Pearson making a joke, folks. These moments are few and far between in The Black Prince, so enjoy 'em when you can.
Quote #8
When sexual desire is also love it connects us with the whole world and becomes a new mode of experience. Sex then reveals itself as the great connective principle whereby we overcome duality, the force which made separateness as an aspect of oneness at some moment of bliss in the mind of God. (2.1.13)
Fancy. Does this explain why Bradley Pearson associates the idea of sex with Rachel Baffin with nothing more than "animal instinct," while he believes that sex with Julian Baffin is a form of communing with the "godhead"?
Quote #9
When one has at last got what has been ardently longed for one wishes time to cease. Often indeed at such moments it is miraculously slowed. Looking into each other's eyes we caressed each other without any haste at all, with a sort of tender curious astonishment. […] My luxuriant sense of destiny had its nemesis however. I put the essential matter off too long and when I came to it it was over in a second. (3.3.5)
Bradley Pearson is using evasive and delicate language here, but it shouldn't be too difficult to read between the lines and figure out what he's saying. After obsessing about sex with Julian Baffin for days, Bradley is embarrassed to have delivered a disappointing performance on their first night in bed.