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\"Victorianalarge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Part First<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the evening of his first day in Europe, Lambert Strether anxiously imagines sucking his friend Waymarsh\u2019s cock. He hasn\u2019t ever sucked anyone\u2019s cock, and doesn\u2019t want to. It\u2019s just something he imagines when he is anxious. Waymarsh, meanwhile, is thinking about the young receptionist at the hotel. He\u2019d like to fuck her standing up. From behind. Since his wife went mad, he only ever imagines fucking women from behind. Downstairs in her room at the same hotel, Maria Gostrey wonders if Lambert Strether is a homosexual. When they met, he couldn\u2019t stop glancing at her breasts, but later, when they went for a walk in the public garden, he seemed positively afraid of her. Now Strether is alone with Waymarsh, that brute. Could they be fucking? How sad, she thinks, that two Americans should travel so far just to fuck. Don\u2019t they fuck in America? she wonders.<\/p>\n

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Part Second<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waymarsh thinks, the Gostrey woman has nice tits. Strether too admires Maria Gostrey\u2019s breasts\u2014stupidly, he thinks of them as boobies. Maria Gostrey realizes that she wants to fuck Strether. This is unusual: she hasn\u2019t fucked anyone for six years, not since the headwaiter in Mentone. Nor is Strether irresistibly virile; Waymarsh, she is sure, has a bigger cock. But there it is. She wants to grab Strether\u2019s head and shove it between her thighs, to feel his sad Don Quixote moustache tickle her cunt. She wants to empty him of his sadness and let him go, like a balloon. Strether, meanwhile, writes a letter to his fianc\u00e9e, the wealthy Mrs. Newsome, in Massachusetts. When it comes time to mention Maria Gostrey, he sucks anxiously on the end of his pen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Part Third<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Paris, Strether dines with John Little Bilham, an art student. \u201cIs Little really your middle name?\u201d Strether asks. \u201cNot exactly,\u201d Little Bilham says, \u201chowever, I\u2019ve quite earned it.\u201d \u201cOn account of your being tall?\u201d Strether asks, thinking of Little John in Robin Hood. Little Bilham only smiles. When Strether tells Waymarsh about this encounter, Waymarsh imagines Little Bilham fucking Strether. From behind, as always. Because Waymarsh hasn\u2019t met Little Bilham yet, he imagines him as a dwarf or a child. To get his cock into Strether\u2019s ass, he has to stand on a dictionary. Its spine quivers. Then Strether and Waymarsh have breakfast with Little Bilham and Miss Barrace, an expatriate American. Miss Barrace\u2019s ankle brushes Waymarsh\u2019s calf and Waymarsh forgets about Little Bilham entirely. Why must I have a mad wife? he thinks. Why must I have a wife at all?<\/p>\n

Part Fourth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in America, Mrs. Newsome imagines shoving an umbrella up Strether\u2019s ass. But only just for a second\u2014then she goes back to reading his letter. Strether is supposed to be rescuing her son Chad from some vile French woman, and what is he doing? Fucking Maria Gostrey, doubtless. But Strether is actually trying to rescue Chad, who replies amiably to everything Strether says, while his mind constantly revisits the sore on his penis. It\u2019s just a little sore, but the stuff that seeps out of it keeps forming a crust. He thinks about the Italian girl he fucked in Cannes. Well, he thinks, nothing ventured, nothing gained! Chad smiles warmly at Strether, who looks, he thinks, like he wants to suck my cock. Maria Gostrey has an interview with Little Bilham. \u201cAre you sure Strether isn\u2019t queer?\u201d Maria asks. And Waymarsh masturbates while pigeons coo on the windowsill of his hotel room.<\/p>\n

Part Fifth<\/strong><\/p>\n

In preparation for his garden party, the sculptor Gloriani fucks one of his models. Chad Newsome fucks the vile French woman, Marie de Vionnet, in the bathtub. Jeanne de Vionnet, her daughter, fucks herself with an onyx figurine her great-great uncle brought back from Egypt. Later, in Gloriani\u2019s garden, Little Bilham touches Lambert Strether\u2019s knee. God, that faggot is up to it again, thinks Miss Barrace. Then Jeanne de Vionnet arrives, and Strether stares at her little boobies. Then Marie de Vionnet shows up and her boobies are even more beautiful than her daughter\u2019s. This, Strether thinks, is the garden of beautiful boobies! But then Maria Gostrey tells him that Marie de Vionnet is married (she knows Marie de Vionnet from boarding school in Geneva, where they were briefly lovers). Not only that, Maria says, but her husband likes to urinate in her mouth. This, Strether thinks, is the garden of things I don\u2019t know anything about. Miss Barrace leaves the party with Waymarsh. \u201cWhere can I drop you?\u201d Waymarsh asks, to which Miss Barrace replies, \u201cDo you mean to drop me?\u201d Chad Newsome grins in the dark garden. He can hear Gloriani in the studio, fucking the Polish woman with the crooked back and the long sad face.<\/p>\n

Part Sixth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marie de Vionnet thinks, if all the men in America are as stupid as Strether, what can the women be like? She can only picture a kind of human cattle: plump naked women squatting in the mud, letting themselves be fucked by any idiot who passes by. Strether becomes aware that Jeanne de Vionnet is staring at him. What is she looking at me like that for? he wonders. Strether recalls fucking a young girl when he was here before, when he, Lambert Strether, was also young. He visited a maison de passe and chose the least ruined of the girls there, the one who looked least ruined. Was she sixteen? Eighteen? Strether doesn\u2019t know it, but she was thirty-four. As soon as Strether leaves the room, Gloriani approaches Jeanne de Vionnet. \u201cMademoiselle,\u201d he says, \u201cI am contemplating a bust of Psyche…\u201d Waymarsh walks past them, oblivious. He\u2019s thinking of what it felt like when Miss Barrace put her finger up his ass. \u201cWell, Monsieur, if it is only a bust,\u201d Jeanne de Vionnet says.<\/p>\n

Part Seventh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Gostrey leaves Paris for Mentone, where she fucks the headwaiter again. He has put on weight, and his asthma has gotten worse. But she has to fuck someone. Meanwhile in Paris, Marie de Vionnet asks Chad Newsome if she should fuck Lambert Strether. \u201cStrether!\u201d Chad gasps with laughter. \u201cWhy do you laugh?\u201d asks Marie. \u201cIt\u2019s just that I don\u2019t think he\u2019s fucked anyone in his life,\u201d Chad says. \u201cBut he\u2019s engaged to your mother,\u201d says Marie. \u201cMy mother,\u201d Chad says, \u201chas never fucked anyone in her life.\u201d Somewhere in the darkness, Waymarsh is shouting, \u201cDeeper!\u201d Finally Maria Gostrey returns to Paris. Poor Lambert, she thinks, you could have fucked me too, if only you knew how to ask!<\/p>\n

Part Eighth<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the ship from Boston to Calais, Sarah Pocock, Mrs. Newsome\u2019s daughter, rebuffs her husband, Jim. \u201cI\u2019m queasy,\u201d she says, although the real problem is that she\u2019s constipated. Jim goes up to the deck and dreams of fucking some little Paris girl. But when they get to Paris, all the women he sees are withered and shawled, or else they have sores around their mouths. Strether shows Jim to his hotel, and thinks anxiously about sucking his cock. Why, he wonders, why do I have to think these things? Is it because I\u2019m a failure? Or am I a failure because I think these things? Mamie Pocock (Jim\u2019s younger sister) stands on the balcony of the hotel, watching a man masturbate under his coat. Gloriani fucks Jeanne de Vionnet in his studio. Naked, she\u2019s just as beautiful as he thought, if somewhat looser in the lower lips. I am the sun! Gloriani thinks. Sarah Pocock takes an enormous shit.<\/p>\n

Part Ninth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waymarsh takes Sarah Pocock to dinner. \u201cHow is your digestion, dear Waymarsh?\u201d Sarah asks. \u201cNever better,\u201d Waymarsh says. \u201cHow is your husband?\u201d \u201cJust the same,\u201d Sarah Pocock says. In fact, at that very moment Jim Pocock is fucking Marie de Vionnet. He can\u2019t believe it: why would a woman like that want him? He had hoped at best for a whore or some vague flower girl. And here he is, shoving his cock into a Countess! Pocock doesn\u2019t know it, but Marie de Vionnet is thinking, my God, this man could be in the circus! She imagines him in a wagon with bars for walls, crouched naked on a pile of straw, his enormous cock dangling. SEE THE POCOCK, reads a painted sign that hangs from the wagon\u2019s roof. Mamie Pocock presses her hips against the railing of the balcony and dreams furiously about fucking Little Bilham.<\/p>\n

Part Tenth<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thought of fucking Mamie Pocock makes Little Bilham sick. The thought of marrying her makes him dizzy. To comfort himself, he gets drunk and drives to a private house in Passy, where he fucks a fourteen-year-old boy. Jeanne de Vionnet is pregnant, but she doesn\u2019t tell anyone. Waymarsh visits a shop on the rue St Denis, and shows Miss Barrace what he has purchased. Miss Barrace agrees to give it a try. Later, she visits Marie de Vionnet, who seems to be having trouble walking. \u201cDid you hurt your foot?\u201d Miss Barrace asks, impishly. Marie gives her a deadly look. Sarah Pocock\u2019s stomach rumbles. Waymarsh won\u2019t get up from the divan.<\/p>\n

Part Eleventh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lambert Strether visits the French countryside. Enfin, he understands why people fuck animals: it comes from an abundant overflowing feeling of love for the world. He could fuck the grass, the trees, the sky! But as always he fucks nothing. Not far away, Chad Newsome wants to fuck Marie de Vionnet in their little rowboat, but Marie puts him off: she\u2019s still sore from Jim Pocock. Back in Paris, Jeanne de Vionnet takes rat poison, but not enough rat poison. Her teeth fall out.<\/p>\n

Part Twelfth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gloriani has only just begun his Psyche when he dies of a heart attack. Sarah Pocock wipes her ass and finds blood on the paper. Marie de Vionnet watches herself in the mirror. I have an old woman\u2019s breasts, she thinks, and covers herself with a summer shawl. Waymarsh writes a letter to his mad wife: \u201cDarling…\u201d Chad Newsome fucks an English girl he met on the train. Change is life, he thinks. Better to be in the stream than on the bank! Little Bilham receives a letter, asking him for more money than he can possibly pay. Mamie Pocock masturbates desperately in her hotel room. Jim Pocock has trouble pissing. In their final interview, Maria Gostrey wonders who or what made Lambert Strether the way he is. When she was at school in Geneva, she knew a boy who was fucked by a priest every Sunday morning. The sad set of his shoulders reminds her of Strether\u2019s stoop. She imagines a world where it would be possible to un-fuck: not just to pull the cocks out of the cunts and the anuses and the mouths, not just to remove the tongues from the cocks and the anuses and the cunts, but to restore a person, by an act of love, to what he was like before he was ever fucked. To undo fucking with a gesture, with a word\u2014with a silence. Like restoring antiques, it would be a kind of fraud, but as with antiques people might not mind the deception. If only we could believe that such a thing was possible! she thinks to herself, on the verge now of tears. Strether bows to her and she thinks, Fuck me, unfuck me, fuck me, fuck me! And Strether, for his part, is already dreaming of America, and of Mrs. Newsome, whose body looms before him like a continent, waiting to crush and starve and mangle him with its immense bounty.<\/p>\n

Paul La Farge is the author of four books, most recently <\/em>Luminous Airplanes<\/a>, which was the Huffington Post’s Most Criminally Overlooked Novel of 2011. He will be a 2013-14 Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in the New York Public Library.<\/em><\/p>\n

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