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Doña Lucretia succumbs to the temptation
& indulges Vargas Llosa’s Don Rigoberto, & his learned lasciviousness:

“Last night, however, after obediently playing the industrious housewife by Vermeer, I decided to respond. Something in the dark depths of my being…demanded that I set pen to paper. Have I done the right thing?”

“The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto,” by Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated by Edith Grossman. Illustrated. New York, 1998: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. pp 165-166.