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His wet shirt glistened in the summer haze. "Romantic love," he offered, "Was its Western manifestation unique, a response to early industrialisation?"
Images of muscled men with sweat and soot upon the brow filled her fevered mind.
"Is it a stage in the liberation struggle of women?" she countered. "Consider chivalric romance, Goethe, Gyorgy Lukacs. What of romance as a continuation of the spirit of the French revolution, a struggle within liberalism?"
Meanwhile, the blacksmith and the heiress were arguing about Jane Austen.
Then the doorbell trilled ominously. You could hear their breathing. It was the postman delivering a package.
He proffered A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, two inverted commas in 69 on the cover, and shards of Sappho. Plus, the gypsy maps of Damian Le Bas.
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