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Quote #10
Later on, she was crying. There had been no doubt about this love-making. I lay exhausted and let her cry. Then I turned her round and let her tears mingle with the sweat which had darkened the thick grey hairs of my chest and made them cling to my hot flesh in flattened curls. I held her in a kind of horrified trance of triumph and felt between my hands the adorable racked sobbing of her body. (3.6.1)
The first time that Bradley Pearson feels satisfied with his sexual performance in bed with Julian Baffin is also the first time that he is rough and violent with her, to the point of causing her pain. Afterwards, Bradley doesn't think of himself as having done anything wrong—in fact, he's quite proud. Is this just another aspect of Bradley's misogyny, or is it somehow connected to his ideas about sex, art, and love?