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i'mauntallie
02-21-2007, 10:02 AM
I just read this quote


She looked redundant with life, health, and energy;
all of which attributes were bound down and compressed, as it were and girdled
tensely, in their luxuriance, by her virgin zone.
towards the beginning of the book.

what does "virgin zone" mean here? does it mean that she toned down her beauty consciously with her way of acting?