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...complexion of the marriage changed after Bonaparte returned a national hero, besieged by well-wishers and idolized by women ("Genius has no sex!" cried Madame de Stael, trying to rush past a startled footman to surprise Bonaparte in his bath). Threatened with divorce, Josephine meekly settled down to the role of dutiful wife...
Begin with a sauna bath. Even Charlton Heston likes saunas. Install a bidet in your bathroom. Love Tom Jones. Adore Barbra Streisand. Get a dress shirt with hundreds of layers of overlapping eyelet ruffles. When you are hostess, wear evening skirts. Serve baked marrow bones. Appear in your own hair, because wigs have had it. So has LSD. Don't wear mink anywhere but to bed (sable is safe enough elsewhere), and don't ever mention Cleopatra...
...rewrites the marriage vows: "Dost thou, Algernon, promise to laugh at this woman's jokes, push the car until it starts and bring her sherry in the bath?" She loathes trading stamps: "If I want to buy a watch, I want to buy a watch; I don't want to buy 27,720 Ibs. of self-raising flour and then get a watch free." She loves sluts, and enlists herself bravely in their cause...
...most part, to a willful and unnecessary obscurity. A poet should only make demands on his reader for essential reasons, and he must offer something substantial for the time and energy that explication requires. Bob Grenier is a better translator than original poet. I prefer Doris Garter in the bath to Doris Garter exploring a religious cosmos. And Susan Rich surpasses other more galactic rumblings with a little poem (less disturbingly fastidious than her drawing) of an abandoned doll. Her subtle internal rhymings reveal a feeling for line that is also found in parts of Robert Dawson's overlong poem...
...liquids." > On bidets: "It's no good to say 'It's not a drinking fountain,' because your child will still want to know what it is. There's no use your giving your child a purposely wrong answer. 'It's a foot bath' can only lead to future embarrassment, misinterpretation and general confusion. As far as I know, there is no evasive answer. Just say it's a bottom washer-offer...