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Teachers?

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From “Love and Literature” in Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology with Commentaries by Aldous Huxley. […] Isolate a new born rat, then, when it is mature, introduce it to another rat of the opposite sex. It will know exactly what … Continue reading →

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Sex, Youth and Experience

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Francois Lachance

“Child of All Ages” by P.J. Plauger collected inn The Best of Science Fiction of the Year #5 edited by Terry Carr features a female protagonist that manages never to grow up yet is wise in the ways of the … Continue reading →

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To describe, to emote

Posted on March 15, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Thomas McNamee in Alice Walters and Chez Panisse concludes the “Death and Life” chapter with a description of the 1987 San Francisco benefit, Aid and Comfort. As the last lines and the concluding sentences of the chapter, they are designed … Continue reading →

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Keyword: lover

Posted on March 14, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Thomas McNamee relates in Alice Walters and Chez Panisse in the chapter “Very Sixties” informs readers about California usuage. Long before cohabitation was common anywhere else in the country, unmarried couples were openly living together in Berkeley. They didn’t call … Continue reading →

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Erotic Fragment

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Not coded, yet modest in its own way, an exposure of sorts… DENTS I thrust my tongue into your ear. I slather spit in the whorls. Rimming hair and wax. Baby ass soft. Behind its curling I let my exploration … Continue reading →

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For “modesty” read “coded”

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Francois Lachance

John A. Sanford Fate, Love, and Ecstasy: Wisdom from the Lesser-Known Goddesses of the Greeks An important way in which aidos enhances the secrets of love and lovemaking, which intensifies enjoyment, is reflected in the intimacy of lovers. Lovers whose … Continue reading →

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Affirmation

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Dorothy Allison, “The Future of Female: Octavia Butler’s Mother Lode” in Reading Black, Reading Feminist edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Oankali represent Butler’s solution to the sexual horrors she details in every novel — a people who honor … Continue reading →

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From Pun to Satire

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Piers Anthony Yon Ill Wind is a novel full of puns. Indeed the puns propel the plot. It was published in 1996 and has this passage in which a character, the husband of a woman sucked almost dry by a … Continue reading →

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Any time

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Francois Lachance

I used to confuse Valerie Miner with Isobel Miller, author of Patience and Sarah. Must be the cover art of Winter’s Edge in the Crossing Press 1985 edition — two women conversing by a window at a cafe … in … Continue reading →

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Dance Partners

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Francois Lachance

The General in His Labyrinth by Gabreil Garcia Marquez translated by Edith Grossman supplies this delightful anecdote that relates a swipe at snobbery. One was different from the rest: Jose Laurencio Silva was the son of a midwife from the … Continue reading →

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