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Well, your perfect erotic object remains only in recognition memory); and his absolute absence from reconstruction memory becomes the yearning that is, finally, desire. That socially surrounded absence, when you__e young, masks a lot of things in the real world; when you__e older and a few thousand sexual encounters have begun to clear what desire is about (or perhaps what really lies about desire) and you have begun to perceive desire__ edges, its effect is not so much that of an obliterator any more as it is that of a distorting lens. If you can smile at what you see through, it__ sometimes illuminating.
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Well, your perfect erotic object remains only in recognition memory); and his absolute absence from reconstruction memory becomes the yearning that is, finally, desire. That socially surrounded absence, when you__e young, masks a lot of things in the real world; when you__e older and a few thousand sexual encounters have begun to clear what desire is about (or perhaps what really lies about desire) and you have begun to perceive desire__ edges, its effect is not so much that of an obliterator any more as it is that of a distorting lens. If you can smile at what you see through, it__ sometimes illuminating.
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