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after that day everything was changed for good, there was no more capitalism or bourgeois or banks or people like Viola. Well, I should like that day to come.'

p 341 ... the old man announced that he was now going to fetch his camera; all they must do now was to uncover those parts of their bodies as he indicated them: to be able to photograph them as much as he wished, he was ready to pay a supplementary amount. His tone was now relatively calm and distant again; it might have been the thought that the camera, with its technicalities, replaced in the old man the overthrown capacity of reason; that it again placed a distance between his desire and the bodies of the call-girls. But it was not so - or at least it was not only so. In reality, the camera was incorporated by the

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old man into the erotic game and became an indispensable element in the two phases of sex à trois. In the first phase, the camera brought it about that the call-girls undressed without, so to speak, being aware of it, uncovering, obediently and amused, the first one part of their bodies and then another, according as the old man pointed out his objective; in the second phase, which took place in the bedroom on the floor above, the camera was used to force the girls to make love in the positions which the old man successively invented an suggested. Thus, in the first phase the camera assumed a certain welcoming composure like that of a mistress interrogating a servant girl before engaging her, combined with the technique of photographs in erotic