Notes:
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Word version of painting
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Fruit symbolizes passion; it kills you
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Sensual poem
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Girls are checking out men – bad to look at them
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Laura can’t resist; gives a lack of her hair – piece of herself – for
the
fruit; sign of losing virginity
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Men now have power over her
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She is hooked on fruit and can’t give it up; metaphor for drugs
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Laura longs for the night, but she can no longer hear the goblin call
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Fruits – Tree of Life – Laura needs it to live
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Line 290 – Laura sees a mirage, she’s beginning to die
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Lizzie decides to save her; searches out the goblins
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They tempt her
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She resists so they become violent and try to force the fruit into her
mouth
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Squishes it all over her face
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She runs back home to Laura who kisses her and sucks the juices
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Cures her because after the second taste you couldn’t stand it –
Homeopathic
therapy –
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takes same thing to cure it (Allopathic – cure with something else)