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Quote #10
But their bodies had rebelled, rejecting the union between them, and in terror they asked themselves where their horror and disgust would take them. [...] So, like two enemies bound together, making vain efforts to release themselves from this forced embraced, they were tensing their muscles and their nerves. (28.5)
Before Camille's death, the sex in this book represented the perfect union between Thérèse's nerves and Laurent's blood. The two merged into a single organism through their bodily lust. However, once Camille becomes a ghost, Thérèse and Laurent's "bodies [rebell]." The thing that once brought these two together becomes the force that keeps them apart.