何物alarm thing & gas thing?敏感部位？

Last Hermit

汉英

What's the subject? A number of armed men are hurling instructiions and imprecations over
their shoulders, some to the left, some to the right, none of them apparently listening to what
anyone else is saying. They're supporting what seems, from the strain on their muscles, to be a
substantial burden--a stoutish lady whose clothes have been disarranged to reveal her left
knee and her right breast. There are flames in the darkness, and the night sky is full of
chimeras. waves are breaking around the men's legs, oarsmen are straining at oars. Yes, what
the armed men are struggling to do is to place the stout party in a boat. She's the wife of a
Greek shipowner, off on a Mediterranean cruise. No--concentrate on the iconography. The
figure hovering in the air above their heads, pointing out to sea, is Cupid. There's plainly some
love interest involved. I believe Cupid is pointing in the direction of Troy.
"The abduction of Helen?"I hazard.
"The rape of Helen,"corrects Tony.
"Rape?" says Laura. "It doesn't look much like rape to me."
"Ratto di Elena," says Tony firmly. "Written on the back. Rape of Helen."
"She's not exactly pressing her little ALARM THING," says Laura. "She's not exactly
squirting her LITTLE GAS thing in their eyes."
"Rape," says Tony. "That's what we've always called it."

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