Word: paulus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...menage a quatre may have been too limiting for Paulus. From the beginning he had established his independence. On the evening of his wedding to Hannah he went off to revel with a bachelor friend, winding up the night -talking, he said-in a strange girl's room. Tillich acknowledged his "demons," but gave them rather free rein...
...Canadian vacation, shortly after the Tillichs' 1933 move to the U.S., a friend who had accompanied them found his wife, nude, with Paulus on the roof of their lodgings. Some liaisons were more lasting; one of Tillich's more permanent paramours lived across the street from the couple in Manhattan...
Lady Fair. A somewhat different view of Tillich's libido appears in another book to be published this month, Paulus (Harper & Row; $5.95). Written by his former student, Rollo May, it suggests that Tillich's pursuit of women was more sensual than sexual. To May, Tillich was in the medieval mold, a throwback to the age of chivalry, an incurable romantic who could scarcely write a book-even his best theology -without at least inwardly dedicating it to some lady fair. He was Teutonically serious about sex; the erotic pretensions of classic pornography attracted him, but he abhorred...
...describes in detail how Tillich took May's fiancee out walking one afternoon and wove a Tolkien-like fantasy in which she and Paulus became lovers. He cajoled her into pronouncing the ending: "We would lie together." It was only "psychological" seduction, says May, who seems oddly proud of it, as if his fiancee had been honored by "the old custom of the deflowering of the new bride by the lord of the estate...
Eventually, the compulsive fires had to burn down. In their last years together, Hannah reports, "it was harvest time for Paulus and me. I felt compassion for Paulus, I could enjoy him again... (We) indulged in a new, secret marriage pact...