"She was about ten yards away, in an exquisitely pretty First World War summer dress. It was striped mussel- blue, white and pink, and she carried a fringed sunshade of the same cloth. She wore the sea- wind like a jewel. It caught her dress, moulded it against her body" (Fowles, 193).
Having finished The Magus, this passage reminds me of something it did not the first time around: the ancient Greeks perception of the dangers of female sexuality. As far as they were concerned it could not be trusted. A prime example of this was the Bachae. Female sexuality could harm you as a man, in the ancient Greeks' view. This is exactly what happened to Nick in this book. He became so enamored by the sexuality of Lily especially, but also that of Rose and Alison. It was this that led him further along into Conchis's Labrynth, and a great deal of suffering to go along with the journey.
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