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Elle guettait les mieux mis, elle voyait ça à leurs yeux pâles. C'était comme un coup de folie charnelle passant sur la ville. Elle avait un peu peur, car les plus comme il faut étaient les plus sales. Tout le vernis craquait, la bête se montrait, exigeante dans ses goûts monstrueux, raffinant sa perversion.
— Oct 06, 2025 06:55AM
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Le prodige fut que cette grosse fille jouait à la ville des rôles de charmeuse, sans un effort. C'étaient des souplesses de couleuvre, un déshabillé savant, comme involontaire, exquis d'élégance, une distinction nerveuse de chatte de race, une aristocratie du vice, superbe, révoltée, mettant le pied sur Paris, en maîtresse toute-puissante. Elle donnait le ton, de grandes dames l'imitaient.
— Oct 11, 2025 04:58AM
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Nana avait toujours tremblé devant la loi, cette puissance inconnue, cette vengeance des hommes qui pouvaient la supprimer, sans que personne au monde la défendit.
— Oct 10, 2025 07:17AM
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Tout son être se révoltait, la lente possession dont Nana l'envahissait l'effrayait, en lui rappelant ses lectures de piété, les possessions diaboliques qui avaient bercé son enfance. Il croyait au diable. Nana, confusément était le diable, avec ses rires, avec sa gorge et sa croupe, gonflés de vice.
— Oct 04, 2025 03:33AM
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Oct 06, 2025 08:50AM
Refined perversion! Why you just don't get that in other countries, we poor beings just have to mske do with our own crude perversions instead.
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Thanks for the quote, Ilse!You cracked me up, Jan ;)
Jan-Maat wrote: "Refined perversion! Why you just don't get that in other countries, we poor beings just have to mske do with our own crude perversions instead."True enough, or one can read books of course :D. If not getting that in other countries (which I doubt ;) one can always count on Paris to indulge in the most sophisticated debauchery! And the point here, made by a prostitute, that one can find more monstruosity and perversion among the upperclass than in those less wealthy, reminded me of a Flemish saying 'Hoe groter geest, hoe groter beest!'
P.E. wrote: "Thanks for the quote, Ilse!You cracked me up, Jan ;)"
You are very welcome, P-E - it seems we are both in a Zola mood these days ;) (and all the gold and ivory and gaudy colours in which Nana is bathing makes quite the contrast with the 'dirty' colour palette Zola uses in 'Thérèse Raquin'....
Zola seems to endorse eloquently the reputation and attraction of Paris in this particular field of carnal pleasure at that time....
That's right, and I fancy reading La joie de vivre soon, which is famed to be one of his bleakest novels with L'Assommoir, that is saying something! :oQuite the acute observation, Ilse! It is as though the novel bathed in the muddy waters where Camille drowns! However, the palette is not all gold, ivory and lustrous colours, as the painter spreads a thick layer of sickly colours, bound to appear sooner than later!
I am still on the fence about Thérèse Raquin: part of it forced consideration for the craft of the writer, depicting the aftermath of murder, deep-dyed duplicity and lust... On the other hand, Thérèse, Laurent, Camille, Mme Raquin and their guests do seem to work like so many well-oiled automatons!
