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June 27, 2016
Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick
“Sexy beyond measure,” Morewood is “one of the great unsung figures in literary history,” a woman who “didn’t like to take no for an answer.” Shelden describes her as Melville’s “goddess in his Berkshire paradise,” the “powerful key to unlocking his secrets,” an “untamed spirit” whose “seductive powers worked their wonders on more than a few men.” Her supposed years-long affair with Melville was “so intimate and revealing that it colored every aspect of his life.” Shelden’s panting, cliché-choked style soon has you reaching for the light switch and candle, then the cigarette and bonbons. | New Republic
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Sarah Morewood was "an indefatigable thrower of parties and the Berkshires’ top literary hanger-on"
Sounds like a typical untalented-but-married-to-a-rich-husband Berkeley culture vulture, doesn't it? Plus ca change...
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at June 27, 2016 2:04 PM
....oh yeah, a real vixen from the looks of things. But, there are a few things that I, as a tasteful and selective modern male, concede in regard to the typical Edwardian era babe:
They typically bathed once a week, sometimes less often. They did not shave their armpits, mustaches, legs or happy places. They had no concept of deoderant, their hair was usually oily and full of dandruff and they seldom brushed their teeth.
Sure would make me thing twice or 10 times. In a word, no thanks, I'll pass.
Posted by: Jack at June 28, 2016 8:01 AM