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impotent narcissus
Nice piece by Nicholas Lezard on Don Giovanni and the various things people have said about it / him: So, for all that Don Juan is driven by carnal desires, or perhaps precisely because of this, he has...
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not yet, not yet, picture mickey mantle, picture joe d…
I’m not an Ian McEwan fan. Look, he writes very elegantly. And Saturday is an excellent teaching text (in large part because you get to show students something fairly subtle about the Iraq War,...
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strange fits of passion: wordsworth, poetry, masturbation, whatever
If it were a different age of criticism, back in the time of queering and general erotic teaseout, maybe I’d write a paper on masturbation and the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Sex is, afterall, all...
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iphone 4 and “mechanical reproduction”
I’m fascinated by the new iPhone 4 promotional video, its juxtaposing of scenes of quietly utopian everyday life with shots of the human-free robotic production of the phones. What’s especially...
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sex in fiction (notes)
From Michael Hofmann’s rather brilliant piece on Kundera in the new LRB (paywalled, I think). Here, he’s talking about Kundera’s characters and sex. Kundera has an old – and I would say, a dated –...
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