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Liam O'Leary
is on page 175 of 190
"Nature has endowed woman with her advantage of being able to do business with her love, and therefore bourgeois society, dominated as it is by men, nautrally regards it as the most disgraceful of all crimes."
Fascinating. In Death & The Devil (1904?) Wedekind predicts the Marxist criticism of 3rd wave vs. 2nd wave feminism on the sex industry well over half a century before it happened? ...Shame this play sucks!
— Jan 15, 2021 06:20PM
Fascinating. In Death & The Devil (1904?) Wedekind predicts the Marxist criticism of 3rd wave vs. 2nd wave feminism on the sex industry well over half a century before it happened? ...Shame this play sucks!
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Liam O'Leary
is on page 162 of 190
"Geschwitz: It's amazing how hunger deprives men of the strength to withstand misfortune. But when they've gorged themselves they turn the world into a torture-chamber, and throw lives away to satisfy a whim. [...] I'm not a human being, my body has nothing in common with human bodies. And yet I have a human soul."
Oddly prescient for 1904, ok, finally, some insight. (G is Lulu's female lover).
— Jan 15, 2021 02:19PM
Oddly prescient for 1904, ok, finally, some insight. (G is Lulu's female lover).
Liam O'Leary
is on page 160 of 190
"Kingu Poti: My father Emperor of Uahubee. I got six wife here: two Spanish, two English, two French. But --- I don't like these wife. I always got to take bath... bath, bath, bath..."
Six wives hard life.
Makes 0 sense he'd want a mistress to help him with this? I don't think this is slapstick, if it is then it's the only joke I've noticed this far into Pandora's Box!
— Jan 15, 2021 02:12PM
Six wives hard life.
Makes 0 sense he'd want a mistress to help him with this? I don't think this is slapstick, if it is then it's the only joke I've noticed this far into Pandora's Box!
Liam O'Leary
is on page 143 of 190
"Lulu: She's waiting. What shall I tell her?
Rodrigo: my best regards and that I'm queer."
A play in 1904 understands queer as a sexuality. And yet, even today I feel like the average person might not. Honestly I'm surprised to see this word in a play that's over 115 years old?
— Jan 15, 2021 01:44PM
Rodrigo: my best regards and that I'm queer."
A play in 1904 understands queer as a sexuality. And yet, even today I feel like the average person might not. Honestly I'm surprised to see this word in a play that's over 115 years old?
Liam O'Leary
is on page 140 of 190
"Lulu (imploringly): Oh, yes, please. You must, you must take care of him. Then you can do whatever you want with me"
This book needs an internet filter. Seriously considering whether this play is the literary origin of pornography scripts.
— Jan 15, 2021 01:32PM
This book needs an internet filter. Seriously considering whether this play is the literary origin of pornography scripts.
Liam O'Leary
is on page 130 of 190
"...When I was fifteen [...] I doubted I'd ever be happy. I bought a revolver; and at night ran across the bridge to shoot myself in the snow. Then I had the good fortune of lying in the hospital for three months without ever seeing a man."
Not only is this both psychologically inconsistent and physiologically implausible for this particular character, this plot point is disgustingly insensitive. This play fails.
— Jan 15, 2021 01:16PM
Not only is this both psychologically inconsistent and physiologically implausible for this particular character, this plot point is disgustingly insensitive. This play fails.
Liam O'Leary
is on page 119 of 190
"For twenty years literature has produced nothing but half-men: men unable to beget children and women unable to bear them. It's what's called the "Modern Dilemma"."
— Jan 15, 2021 12:34PM
Liam O'Leary
is on page 116 of 190
People in plays always seem to hide behind portieres. Does anyone actually own one? Has anyone ever hidden behind them to avoid a scandal in real life?
— Jan 15, 2021 12:26PM
Liam O'Leary
is 50% done
This is the first time I've been the only GoodReads user reading the True First edition of a book. I feel pompously responsible for describing this book as best I can for the sake of internet history. The problem is, is that it's not very good.
— Jan 14, 2021 10:41AM
