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extraneous
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12) The proverbial last straw in Andrew and Flo's relationship is, after all, not her cruel mistreatment of all of Leviathan's slaves, nor her imposition of destructive drug addiction on Andrew, nor even coercive sex per se, but rather sex that demonstrates Andrew's extraneousness as a man: Then Flo began to rub against me in a raw, hard way.
Most of the theories of Tom Bombadil's identity are covered by Jensen, but the theory of Bombadil as a projection of the reader is from Beier, and the unfriendly remarks about Bombadil's extraneousness come from Gasque (6).
Contrary to Stella's mother, who had resolutely left her daughter to the care of others upon realizing her inability to love her, Lenni's mother, in spite of her deep feelings of (self-)alienation and extraneousness towards her daughter, had passively succumbed to the maternal role prescribed for her by the script of the patriarchal family.
 
 
 
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