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…showed last 75 words of 432 total…to represent a sexual act between the man and his lover. As the man continues to relate his idea to the woman, she kills the flea, thus crushing his ideas and rejecting him. After she has killed the flea, he tells her that she has not committed a big crime. Yet he tells her that in fearing for her honor she has reduced herself to the importance of the dead flea, which now is nothing.