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TOTAL RECALL:HAUNTED BY REJECTION
”First, the bedpost notches: let’s get them out of the way. In his History of My Life. Casanova records sexual experiences with well over a hundred women – 122 to 136, depending on how one computes certain group and semi-consummated … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Karloff, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Giacomo Casanova, Guy Dammann, Henry Fielding, Ian Kelly, Ian kelly Guardian, James Boswell, James Gillray, John Wilkes, Judith Summers, Kitty Fisher, Lydia Flem, Marquis de Sade, Moll Flanders, Sally Salisbury, Samuel Johnson, Susan Swan, Tennyson, Val Lewton, William Hickey, William Hogarth
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SOMETIMES ITS BETTER TO FORGET
Not every man is a legend in his own time but Giacomo Casanova (1724-1798) achieved legendary status well before his death, living long enough to be a “consultant’ on the first production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Soldier, scholar, lawyer, physician, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Hunt, Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Boilly, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Cathleen Hardy, Diomnysis, Giacomo Casanova, James Gillray, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Judith Summers, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, mandy katz, Michel Foucault, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ron Hogan, Stephen Amidon, Susan Swan, Titian, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zanetta Casanova
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FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A WASP
”Destined for a high-flown career in the church, he was inducted as a novice priest and introduced to the most influential people in the city, but the pleasures of Venice assailed him at every turn, and, as he later admitted, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ange Goudar, Arthur Symons, Bernard de Fontenelle, Carlo Goldoni, Casanova, Fanny Hill, Giacomo Casanova, Hester Booth, Judith Summers, Lydia Flem, Marianne Charpillon, Susan Swan, Voltaire, William Hogarth, Zanetta Casanova
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CUNNING CUPID: 116 to 134 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
“…when he had conquered well, the women were the true winners, for he devoted himself to our pleasure with the intensity of a vocation. Indeed he believed fervently in female pleasure, thinking it greater than his own.” ( M.R. Lovric … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Volkoff, Andrei Codrescu, Andrew Miller, Arthur Symons, Bernardino Zapponi, Carlo Goldoni, Casanova David Tennant, Casanova Syndrome, Frederico Fellini, Giacomo Casanova, Heath Ledger, Hieronymous Bosch, Judith Summers, Lydia Flem, M.R. Lovric, Marianne Charpillon, Paul Simon, Robert Dessaix, Susan Swan
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