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"...I saw an image come into my mind of a magician's assistant: a woman in sparkling clothes who would step up onto a black box on stage and be stuck all through with long, glinting knives, and the man would be the one plunging them in, and she would emerge at the end to applause, unpenetrated, unwounded, miraculously intact despite all the violence that everyone had seen done to her, and this was the act."