In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality

Susan Sontag
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In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the street, and dirt... Nothing except eating, if that, and the frenzy of the bed. ✨ Susan Sontag (2009). Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, p.209, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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