John Barth - The Floating Opera (1956)

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Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

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Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear, as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.

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