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NAKED AMBITION It doesn’t take long to master the technology of underthings: the backward buckle and stubborn snap, the braille of hook and eye, small lessons we learn in the dark, encouraged by moonlight, mentored by lust. But the mind, overdressed for the tender weather, hangs back inside its own impediments to passion, still waiting for the license of someone else’s eyes. And it’s a long fumble down through years of undoing contrivances of silk— the black plunge, the pink constraints, the closest layer of lace— until some sweet day the mind is naked as the first draft of Eve. Until the mind is where the want is.  ...

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