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As Lady Bracknell might have said, to add one unnecessary and non-historically-attested sex scene may be regarded as a misfortune, to add two looks like carelessness.
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Jan 14, 2026 01:25AM
And three ? A manifesto ?
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I'm barely a third of the way through the book, so I definitely wouldn't rule it out. We haven't even yet met the woman who's widely speculated to have had a lesbian relationship with Saint Hildegard. I mean, before she became a saint.
Now you've really saddened me. Où sont les saints d'antan....
Don't take anything for granted: the foreshadowing looks more hetero than lesbian, but of course the author may be setting up a plot twist later on. I'll post an update when I've found out.Now that I think about it, this is the problem with many religious works. I mean, how many plot twists can you name in the Divina Commedia?
