tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post717187383979924208..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: Winter's EndAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-29340995073826076472011-11-10T16:19:20.509-05:002011-11-10T16:19:20.509-05:00Jean - which only goes to prove that there's n...Jean - which only goes to prove that there's no difference between literature and erotica, because I'm sure that Edith Wharton did a grand job of making scenes like this sizzle.Kathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-56907309151767256582011-11-10T12:36:46.173-05:002011-11-10T12:36:46.173-05:00The period flavour is perfect, Kathleen. Actually,...The period flavour is perfect, Kathleen. Actually, there are scenes like this in the novels of Edith Wharton -- all about Old Money in Old New York.Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-19363057674798567732011-11-09T09:55:15.434-05:002011-11-09T09:55:15.434-05:00Lisabet - the ideas you discussed last week about ...Lisabet - the ideas you discussed last week about erotica being about desire provoked this. I wanted to explore desire without going further, and this was where my mind led.<br /><br />The "nice" thing about strong social restraints on sexuality is that people then start eroticizing everything. A little press of lips to a wrist can be sizzling sexual tension.Kathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-79374095858024220002011-11-09T09:34:39.019-05:002011-11-09T09:34:39.019-05:00Garce - heh. I'd have to go back to Hawthorne&...Garce - heh. I'd have to go back to Hawthorne's horror stories for inspiration.Kathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-12493155426955835662011-11-08T22:16:24.938-05:002011-11-08T22:16:24.938-05:00This really surprised me, coming from you, but it&...This really surprised me, coming from you, but it's perfect. The eroticism of a single touch on an ungloved wrist, opening a world of possibility...<br /><br />I don't think he's a cad. If he were, he would not have been so sensitive to her reputation. <br /><br />And Garce - keep your noodling out of Kathleen's tale! ;^)Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-12755939211131781502011-11-08T20:32:58.423-05:002011-11-08T20:32:58.423-05:00There's not enough information yet to know. M...There's not enough information yet to know. My initial impression is that he is probably a cad trying to find his way between the sheets of a soon to be wealthy widow, because that's what usually happens. But it doesn;t have to be that way. A man might fall in love with a woman in her circumstance and try to make it work as well. In Lady Chatterly's Lover, Chatterly was married to a rich man and fell in love with the hired game keeper, who desired her for herself not for wealth.<br /><br /> Its an interesting mystery. The reader might think he's a cad, and yet have one eye out for a twist at the end. Like maybe her husband had huge gambling debts and she's peniless or something. "I have nothing to give you but myself." <br /><br />Of course if it were my story, I'd have the woman lure Layton into a frankenstein laboratory and the terminally ill husband would murder him and transplant bodies with him.<br /><br />but that's just me.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-16546741200466407652011-11-08T09:19:00.546-05:002011-11-08T09:19:00.546-05:00widdershins - thank youwiddershins - thank youKathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-53987237295582108422011-11-08T09:18:46.342-05:002011-11-08T09:18:46.342-05:00Garce - Do you think he's in love with her, or...Garce - Do you think he's in love with her, or do you think he's an opportunist? Traditional literature would have hime suffer for being an opportunist, and yet, B. Disreli apparently truly loved his much older, much wealthier, wife, even if he did marry her for her money.Kathleen Bradeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06347913255760493335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-43093460683185137732011-11-08T03:25:28.362-05:002011-11-08T03:25:28.362-05:00Sometimes even a little bit of hope suffices ... l...Sometimes even a little bit of hope suffices ... lovely vignette.widdershinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04205462833259334647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-29147044614334585982011-11-07T22:37:48.468-05:002011-11-07T22:37:48.468-05:00I'm curious about this. Is it the beginning o...I'm curious about this. Is it the beginning of a novel? I was wondering how things turned out for the young man.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.com