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...bitter and nationless failure. He is married to a young dancer who sleeps around on him. He is old, overweight, and cowardly. He is also a petty crook, who acts as a driver for rich businessmen, meeting them at the Athens airport, showing them the sights (including a brothel with which he has connections), and eventually fleecing them of their traveller's checks while they are enjoying the fleshpots of the city...
...nights were reserved for sordid encounters. Cavafy secretly kept a room in a brothel on Alexandria's Rue Mosquée Attarine and took willing boys there. But he expressed no more than the most fleeting qualms about his homosexuality. He seems to have been much more disturbed by his autoerotic propensities. As Biographer Liddell explains, "In Egypt the name for this practice '39' is popularly explained by the myth that [masturbation] is 39 times more exhausting than any other sexual...
...first, distribution will be mostly through street sales, and the press run is only about 50,000. The first issue contains a few modest surprises. The cover story is an investigative piece about a recent police raid on a local brothel. The issue also includes a letter from Fugitive Timothy Leary, but Coppola will disclose neither what it contains nor how City acquired it. The front part of the magazine is divided into departments on crime, business news, San Francisco history and other local topics. The middle part contains feature articles, and the back is devoted to entertainment listings...
...estate and Dostoevsky's psychoses. The Brothers Karamazov meet the Brothers Marx; the epic of War and Peace is reduced to a battle of church and shtetl; Boris scatters Yiddishisms and one-liners all the way back to St. Petersburg and the girl he loves like a brothel...
...miscellaneous jottings and parodies are as hilarious as Love and Death. Allen offers a menagerie of mythical beasts: the Great Roe has "the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion." "The Whore of Mensa" wittily plays with the idea of a brothel for intellectual entertainment. The madam has a master's degree in comparative literature; for a price, a curvaceous Vassar student can be had for an hour's chat about Herman Melville; "symbolism is extra...