Story of O | Objects, Setting & Important Places

Story of O Objects/Places

"O" (the shape, not the character)

Aside from being the symbol for O's never revealed name, the shape "O" has three other values - one evident, three inferred. The evident value manifests in the ring O wears, the circular symbol of her sexual availability. The first inferred value is that O also represents, approximately, the shape of her available orifices - her vaginal opening, her anal opening, and her mouth. The second inferred value is that of eternity. The O shape has no beginning and no end, neither does her submission (as embodied by the ring), and neither, according to her training, do the openings of her orifices - her mouth, vagina, and anus are, not to put too fine a point on it, eternally open. The third inferred aspect of the symbol can be found in the fact that it is the first letter in the word "owl", which as described later in this section...
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