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FERAL ENCOUNTER
Feral Encounter is a psychosexual portrait from an autobiographical incident. The animals are how the people saw themselves at the time but I have tried to capture their mentalities. I am the cuttlefish. The woman appeared out of nowhere in the night at my country home and engaged me in an intellectual dialogue about sex. Later I realized that she was writing a book about her sexual experiences for her Ph.D. She was an English teacher at a secondary school and had cut a deal with an acquaintance of mine. He was to provide her with intellectuals and she would introduce him to some of her students. There was a complex sexual relationship which seemed to express mutual hate and fascination. I became a voyeur at close-hand to some very aberrant sensibilities.
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