perversions, punishments

In his room stood a chest of drawers full of horrible fragments of stuff, a wash-hand stand with a highly coloured basin, an empty jug and an old toothbrush. There was also a rotund female bust covered in shiny red material, and chopped off short, as in primitive matyrdoms, at neck, waist and elbows; a thing known as a dressmaker's "dummy" (there had been one of these in Adam's home which they used to call "Jemima"-- one day he stabbed "Jemima" with a chisel and scattered stuffing over the nursery floor and was punished. A more enlightened age would have seen a complex in this action and worried accordingly. Anyway he was made to sweep up all the stuffing himself).

- Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies