 “I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.” Henry Miller loved writing about sex; the intimacy of the act, the frantic, groping passion, the afterglow of laying in a tussle of sheets, your legs intertwined with your lover's, the smell of a woman's sweat soaking into her hair. Sex wasn't a shocking taboo to Miller, instead it was as much a part of life as breathing or writing and deserved the same level or artistic scrutiny. His famous and famously-banned works such as "Tropic of Cancer", "Tropic of Capricorn", and "The Rosy Crucifixion", contained beautifully-crafted passages about passionate acts, but to the post-war puritanical Americans they were pure smut and considered so shocking they were banned in the US until the early 1960's.
“When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.” (Goddamn.)
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 Hello my literary dumplings, we're thrilled to kick off our utterly spectacular 2017 season with the intriguing, thought-provoking, and flat out sexy show, 'Sex With Strangers.' We chose the show not just because its insightful and sly, but because it captures the intense attraction that blossoms over a perfectly crafted, sensual sentence. The story of a gifted writer named Olivia who encounters the famed sex-blogger and memoirist Ethan at a snowy writer's retreat, the first hint of romance in 'Sex With Strangers' occurs when Ethan quotes one of Olivia's delicate, thoughtful passages from her book back to her. That Ethan remembers the lines from Olivia's critically acclaimed but poorly-selling book, words from her mind now being repeated back to her, inflected with his lustful growl ignite in Olivia something she didn't know she possessed.  In the 2008 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's perfect novel, 'Atonement,' two childhood friends Cecilia and Robbie, now nursing deep crushes on one another spend a sweltering summer day in Cecilia's family's prim English estate. In a terrible, beautiful moment of passion Robbie writes Cecilia a note, delivered by her sister, containing one sparse, exquisite, heated sentence. We will not spoil for you this delicious surprise, but trust us when we say it weakened our knees. After spending hours in a formal dinner, simmering in the heat and the possibility of stealing just two minutes away from the crushing propriety of their lives, they meet in the library to "talk." Or not. What ensues is one of the most passionate, gorgeously shot love scenes we've ever watched, and when Cecilia's foot lifts from her shoe, and their lips touched, we swooned. Words are powerful, sexual creatures wrapping themselves into potent sentences that can intoxicate and move a person to madness. The whisper of a love note or the power of a single verse can change everything. And the sex that follows........may we all be so lucky to be moved to desire by but a few words. 'Sex with Strangers' premieres this Friday night at 7:30. Bring a date. |
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