Tag Archives: Mary S. Lovell

creating pose and gesture out of repressed ferocity

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Dave

The author of fifty plus books, including the translations in “literal” detail of all the graphic possibilities that could be mustered and blustered against the edifice of late Victorian England in a raging torrent of works that could be regarded … Continue reading →

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up in smoke: end of the long distance romancer

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dave

Posthumously burned for the sake of propriety. All the hiddens. Al the unknowables. All the unthinkables. The explorations. The eccentric tastes. Her reputation! Yes it all had to go up in smoke. The eroticism, the open sexuality transferred onto the … Continue reading →

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turn out your love light

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

…Upon finishing The Arabian Nights, Richard Francis Burton began to work on a new edition of The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui, an Arabic manual on the art of love, a sort of complementary tome to the “literal” eroticism … Continue reading →

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arabian nights: plain and literal translations…

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

In 1865 Richard Burton was transferred to Santos in Brazil , where Isabel for the first time was able to make a home. They spent four years in Brazil, two in Damascus- which ended in trouble because of the intrigues … Continue reading →