![]() Teran wallows happily in his perversity as though it is natural. Symbolically, the normal functions of the body are overflowing. ![]() A man caring for a child has turned into a man abusing a child. Thick mucus threatened to flow from the boy's nose." There is a sense, in Teran's sick world, of normal things gone awry and being taken too far. Easy writes, "He was wearing soiled briefs and dirty white socks. Easy remembers that his lips were like "swollen wounds." Correspondingly, his "little man," as he terms his young Mexican sex slave, is filthy to match the moral depravity around him. The smells were sweet like perfume and sour, an odor of the body I recognized but could put no name to." To match his revolting surroundings, Teran himself is associated with images of the violent and grotesque. Easy writes, "The moment the door shut I gagged on the odors. One can tell at first glance - or like Easy, at first scent - that Teran is physically and morally filthy. ![]() ![]() Mosley heightens our sense of Teran's perversity by showing how it has leeched from his personality into his appearance and surroundings. Easy encounters sexual perversity several times during his encounters with Matthew Teran, Daphne Monet, and Richard McGee. ![]()
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