i really enjoyed rereading this for vn club!! i loved seeing all the changes to the cgs. i love how it reads like an aged religious manuscript depicting an old tragedy, with the way the nvl is centered and the cgs frame the border. beautiful story of lave and mona lives paralleling each other up until the rituals, where they finally find the desire, intimacy, and comfort in each other they have been deprived of their entire lives. the fact they choose this love despite their awfully miserable and painful situation.