Word: eunuch
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...terrified when the Emperor sent a eunuch to me, saying that I had spit and cursed in his presence, and must acknowledge my guilt in writing. I sent back word apologizing and begging imperial forgiveness...
...Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. After the War he fought in Russia for the Bolsheviks. Twice he has been condemned to death; by the Bolsheviks, by a Chinese secret society. Now he lives in Paris, on a boat in the Seine. Other books: The Son of the Grand Eunuch, Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pei Fou, The Woman Who Commanded...
...films which pass uncensored. At the same time Wagner's Tristan and Isolde seems to me very near to pornography, and so, even, do some quite popular Christian hymns." Author Lawrence thinks the present attitude to pornography is pornographical, blames much of it on "the last century, the eunuch century, the century of the mealy-mouthed lie, the century that has tried to destroy humanity, the nineteenth century." Says Lawrence, if men had a sane feeling about sex, two things would disappear; the love lyric, the smoking-room story. "You can't do it by being wise...
...Siberia (Amkino). A sly, shriveled fellow with the stealth of a fox and the cruelty of a eunuch arrives at a Siberian prison in the Tsar's time and begins to run things the way he wants them. The picture is not a story but a description of the way the imperial prisons are said to have been. There is propaganda in it, but that is kept out of sight. Its horror, too is kept out of sight, brought to life by suggestion until it becomes a mood as palpable as a sound, like something howling. This would...
Author Pettit is a sleek writer with a style naive and beguiling as his characters. He has a flair for provocative titles. His two previous books were called The Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pel Foil, The Son of the Grand Eunuch...