the feelings of a "right" to women's bodies: "What my Marjorie--if everyone had his own, she is mine, and, in that sense, she always will be mine" (97). "What Marjorie Lindon could see in such an apusculum surpassed my comprehensions; especially whren there was a man of my sort walking about, who adores the very ground she trod on" (101)--the idea of men possessing woman, a closed economy of women's desires, masculinity as competition
"Atherton's Magic Vapour": "what a sublime thought to think that in the hollow of your own hands lies the life and death of nations--and it was almost in mine" --mass murdering psychopath. But done in the name of "peace" and help society with his vapour; "Correct" the wrongs of others, you create a better world--but for whom? But are we supposed to buy into this genocidal, borderline eugenicist fantasy?