![]() ![]() The narrator regularly anticipates and summarises what is about to happen: we're told a man sees someone huddled in the shadows, and that it's his cousin's wife Lingling. The descriptions of their lovemaking provide the novel's oddest and least credible passages, in which sentiments soar while sores weep. Already in the advanced stages of the disease, the lovers abandon their marriages and scandalise the village by spending their last days in one another's arms. Love enters this bleak scene in the form of sexual passion between two of the sick. ![]()
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