By the end of Chapter 2, O has stopped being a "photographer's assistant" or a "lover." She has become "O"—a circle. A zero. A space waiting to be filled.
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Last week, we began exploring the cold, hypnotic world of Pauline Réage’s Story of O . If Chapter 1 was the threshold—the moment O willingly steps out of the carriage and into the unknown—then is where the floor gives way. By the end of Chapter 2, O has
That, I think, is the horror and the allure. By the end of Chapter 2