“She was a great specialist in waiting, passive and shy, and that is why she suffered from toothache, for she was made for a dentist’s waiting-room, and her teeth knew it.”

#Gombrowicz #Ferdydurke

and from #Pornografia:

"...the immeasurable meaning of his teeth that were at play here, they were his inner whiteness, all-purifying--and so his teeth were more important than what he was saying--it seemed that he was talking for the sake of his teeth and because of his teeth--he could be saying any old thing because he was talking for pleasure, he himself was a game and a delight, he knew that his teeth, so high-spirited, would be forgiven every revulsion and disgust."

I sense a theme (the theme is teeth)