![]() Jane Alpert, to be sure, inflicted as many troubles as she endured. It is puzzle how an undeniably appealing young woman could have composed an autobiography that leaves us with so little to respect except her troubles. But then, to suspend judgment and search for something beyond this self-abusive question is, I am afraid, to end up losing a deal of patience with a narrator so disinclined to bother herself with, let alone help the rest of us understand, what that something beyond might be. ![]() To answer “yes” would cause the reader to lose all interest in the questioner sexual bondage is not a motive but a sickness. The revolutionary commitment may or may not be a waste of time, but how much profit can we expect to draw from an account of the experience that does not often come close to the reflective except when it is asking a question like: “Did all of us feel interested in bombing buildings only when the men we slept with were urging us on?” ![]()
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