Episode 7
Afterwards she wants to talk about books. In The Tale of Genji, the thousand year old novel by the Lady Murasaki Shikibu, sex is at the heart of the story but is almost never described, she says. The woman’s body is never described. She takes Lady Murasaki out of her bag, where she has been nestling next to the I Ching. “Listen to this,” she sa…
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