Polanski and the Bounty of Childhood Sex

     Une Petite fille sage

     In Memoriam Andrea Dworkin

Pleasures and Days

Blathering about how much one likes or dislikes some bit or art or literature, now coyly referred to as “entertainment,” always puts me to sleep. In the following I shall generally refrain from appreciations and disapprobations except in cases where my feelings are contrary to the opinions that appear to be both widely held and just wrong. Otherwise, I shall  in the same spirit be most interested in pointing things out that, once noticed, may contribute to understanding and titillation.

Artaud on the Marx Brothers

Balzac

Ben Westwood

Orwell: Crushed in the Here and Now

East Of Eden

Rochester

Giorgione

Botticelli

Three Photographers: David Hamilton, Jock Sturges and Sally Mann

Tolstoy on Sex and Death

The Devil is a Woman: Michelangelo's Sexuality

Two Balzacian Metaphors