Word: whore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cameraman she loved before she even met Danny. After another series of extra and marital mishaps, including screwing two other men's wives (one of them that of his best friend), Danny gets roughed up by cops on the Mexican border, emotionally salved by a Mexican whore, and peyoted by a kindly gas station attendant. At that point, in the midst of an hallucinogenic trip, the novel ends...
...worse than the whore's mouth now. The once unawakened young girl, now frightened by the nightmare of her world, aware. The outcast but indispensable woman, the constant worker. Her mouth. When most of the world has fallen into soft sleep, wrapped in that vague warmth of loved ones, or familiar loneliness, or expensive compromise; this mouth, the whore's mouth sucks again on the lipstick reddened cigarette, and begins to harden. The lips unspeaking cry 'fuck you too'. To the ever demanding flaccid phallus, and the rain of sterility...
...annals of religion. St. Clare's family tried to retrieve her bodily after she ran ,away from home to join St. Francis of Assisi and his band of pious mendicants. Legend has it that St. Thomas Aquinas' family locked him in a room with a whore to dissuade him from joining the Dominican order. But the deprogramming practiced by to day's soul snatchers seems suspiciously like a religious version of the Ludovico technique - that brain-blowing treatment administered to Alex, the anti-hero in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. It was designed to make...
...important, the play is a bit too Pinteresque to be good Pinter. It is as if he had merely rearranged bits of other plays to create a "well made" Pinter play. The aunts are the image of the Birthday Party's Meg. Sally's ambiguous character (school teacher or whore?) is reminiscent of The Homecoming's Ruth. And even the theme of the struggle for a room of one's own is an old favorite (The Room...
...Peter Gonzales plays the young Fellini, and he is innocent to the point of validity, wandering wide-eyed through love and squalor. It is a half-hearted attempt to provide some thread of continuity, but Fellini tires of the device, leaves his personal stranded in love with an enormous whore and lapses back into the documentary pose...