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The stable upright fragment turns whispering intimacy into something abrasive and nearly violent.

The combination of `WOMEN whisper` with `scraping your skull$` gives the fragment a nervous charge. It suggests desire and pressure at once, as though affection is being imagined as intrusion, erosion, or obsession.

A short handwritten fragment whose upright lines read 'wish I had WOMEN whisper too / scraping your skull$ / with that your Love will KNEEL'. The soft 'whisper' is set against the abrasive 'scraping your skull', so intimacy and erosion press together, ending on submission, 'your Love will KNEEL'. The dollar sign after 'skull' is a raw mark kept from the scan. This reading remains provisional because the page is OCR-uncertain and marked needs-followup, with lower rotated handwriting left untranscribed.