For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be β or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity. β¨ Margaret Atwood (1987). The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle, Treasure Press
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