... up at the moon, (represented as desire in Cather's stories), The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current" (Cather 1099). This scene has somewhat of a sexual undertone to it with Claude lying naked in the horse tank with the moon glaring down ... ...

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... emphasised. Laura's most erotic portrait is painted when she is trying to induce the goblins to give her their fruit: Laura stretched her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar branch, Like a vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. Laura performs a familiar role in literary history - that of the fallen Eve ... ...

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