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Seduction (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Inez practised it crept inside her skin, so that she saw the world through my eyes.

Seduction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the complete realization of language — language that aims not at making known but at making felt.

Seduction (n.) flaunts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠money, position, connections — to make myself the necessary intermediary between the beloved and the world, an infinite depth and the world itself at once.

Seduction (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠business: you tickled my hand, but you were cold as ice, thinking "How'll I get her to do it?" — then why did you sleep with me? "Damned if I know."

Seduction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠risking my object-state completely: putting myself beneath the Other's look and making myself a fascinating object, to produce in him the consciousness of being nothing before me.