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Any penetration is a grace offered to you by the person you’re inside; it is an intimate way of inclusion, a gift. No matter how hard or rough the fuck, no matter who is the top or bottom or anything else, no matter the genders of the participants, this is a world in which opening one’s self to someone else is always somewhere on the continuum between a gesture of welcome and an office of trust, and you should be grateful.

S Bear Bergman, Butch is a Noun [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Bergman Butch is a Noun penetration gift offered person inside gift world opening self else gesture welcome office trust grateful

And then the figure, turning slowly round, discovered to Frederic the fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapt in a hermit’s cowl. Angels of grace, protect me! cried Frederic recoiling. Deserve their protection, said the spectre.

Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Hermetic quote Walpole Otranto deserve