s that he has read The City of God by St. Augustine and finds the great thinker talking about how he has soothed the various consciences of nuns and virgins who were raped and enjoyed it (Percy, 262). Lancelot reveals his disappointment with Anna. "The great secret of life," he says, is the "ignominious joy of rape and being raped," (Percy, 262). "I expected her to have made the same discovery I made (Percy, 252)," he says. This "discovery" is Lancelot's realization that sex is only a carnal pleasure
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