Another Kundera feature is his skill to connect the unexpected, what clashes, what is conflicting and usually is not convenient to put together. A great example of this I found in Slowness where he is masterfully able to put in a connection the white, diaphanous, and angelic beauty of a woman with the liberating powerful thought of her ass hole. The full moon emerges from the foliage. Vincent looks at Julie and suddenly he is bewitched: the white light has endowed the girl with the beauty of a fairy, a beauty that surprises him, new beauty he did not see in her before, a fine, fragile, chaste, inaccessible beauty. And suddenly, he cannot even tell how it happened, he imagines the hole of her ass. Abruptly, unexpectedly, that image is there, and he will never be rid of it. Ah, the liberating ass hole! Thanks to it, the elegant fellow in the three-piece suit (at last, at last!) has completely vanished. What several glasses of whisky could not accomplish, an ass hole h...
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