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The figure engraved on this medallion was that of a (…) phallus, in the condition known in heraldry as *rampant*, and there were little wings attached to the ballocks thereof, which caught my eye immediately. Around the shaft of this virile member twined the stem of a rose whose bloom nestled somewhat coyly at the place where the foreskin folded back. Whether the thing was ancient or modern I could not tell (…)
— Oct 22, 2025 11:57AM
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Aňa
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There are many reasons, most of them good ones, why a woman should want to murder her husband; homicide might be the only way for her to preserve a shred of dignity at a time, in a place, where women were deemed chattels, or, in the famous analogy of Tolstoy, like wine bottles that might conveniently be smashed when their contents were consumed.
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When she dropped her wrap and donned her plumed topknot, it was as though a huge, not altogether friendly bird appeared among them. She cast a glance at the opulence reflected in the mirror, admired her own bosoms. In the auditorium, they demanded her. She cocked an ear.
‘Suckers,’ she said.
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‘Suckers,’ she said.
Aňa
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(…) concerned only to give the illusion of intentional Bedlam, for the show must go on. And, even if Buffo at last had contrived to plunge his carving knife into the viscera of the Human Chicken, nobody in that vast gathering of merry folk would ever have been permitted to believe it was real manslaughter; it would have seemed, instead, the cream of the jest.
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Aňa
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She owes it to herself to remain a woman, he thought. It is her human duty. As a symbolic woman, she has a meaning, as an anomaly, none.
As an anomaly, she would become again, as she once had been, an exhibit in a museum of curiosities. But what would she become, if she continued to be a woman?
— Dec 24, 2025 04:48AM
As an anomaly, she would become again, as she once had been, an exhibit in a museum of curiosities. But what would she become, if she continued to be a woman?
Aňa
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It is a phenomenon of the trapeze that its practitioners always look larger upon it than they are in life.
— Dec 24, 2025 03:24AM
Aňa
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In all this, Mignon assumed a woman’s place — that of the cause of discord between men; how else, to these men, could she play any real part in their lives?
— Dec 24, 2025 02:40AM
Aňa
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His molten heart spilled out of his bosom and flowed towards her, just as one drop of mercury flows towards another drop of mercury.
— Nov 30, 2025 03:12PM
Aňa
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She had an exceedingly short memory, which alone saved her from desolation.
— Nov 30, 2025 03:06PM
Aňa
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(…) and champagne in a silver ice-bucket, deliriously misted with chill.
— Nov 26, 2025 02:08PM
Aňa
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From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.
— Nov 25, 2025 11:33PM
