Word: juanism
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...monologues allow a cross-indexing of various aspects of love: lust, friend ship, disinterested affection, good will and gratitude. Edward Henley's antiseptic Don Juanism is a calculated mockery of the mythical passions of a faithful Tristan. Stephen Henley, too, has anesthetized his emotions, by marrying a companion and choosing a church that prizes rationality more than faith...
...overlapping Catch-22-caliber scenes devour congruity as war devours youth. In the abbatoir of the operating room a surgeon saws off a leg while he begs a nurse to scratch his nose. The unit's greatest nurse chaser, Dentist Painless Waldowski, decides that Don Juanism is a cover-up for homosexuality. Better never than latent, he decides after a nontumescent night, and instantly opts for the Right Thing: suicide...
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