Yes. June’s not a person or human. She’s an object there for his pleasure and it pleases him to have her play Scrabble and smile and joke and be grateful for magazines
Yes — have you thought about the reason for the magazines? I mean, there’s something so poignant about the way that June is perfectly cognizant that this is trashy reading, nowhere near fulfilling to her intellectual capacity, but starved for any reading, it’s this incredibly powerful motivator. And it’s unclear whether the commander is giving them to her because that’s literally what he thinks she’s intellectually capable of, or because it’s this subtle form of psychological torture because they index a different life.
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