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10 Jan 2021

Suffer the Little Children: D. H. Lawrence on Child Sexuality, Puberty, and Savage Initiation Rites

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Portrait of Lawrence as a young boy     D. H. Lawrence despised false notions of childhood purity and innocence , as if children were entir...
9 Jan 2021

Pédophilie (with Reference to the Cases of Michel Foucault and Gabriel Matzneff)

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  Suffer the little children to come unto us ...   Whatever some people choose to believe, children are not angels and even pre-pubescent y...
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7 Jan 2021

On Initiating Youth into the Democracy of Touch

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Some youths playing football as imagined by D. H. Lawrence  in a water colour entitled Spring (1929)     When D. H. Lawrence writes of the...
6 Jan 2021

Michel Tournier on Education 2: Erotic Religiosity

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It is not enough to love the young;  they must know that they are loved - St. Don Bosco     I.    I closed part one of this post [click here...
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5 Jan 2021

Michel Tournier on Education 1: Initiation contra Instruction

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Ivor Fox: The Initiation (c. 1950)  Oil on board      I've asked it before and I'll ask it again: What is education all about? ...
3 Jan 2021

New Year's Eve 2020: Fireworks, Propaganda, and an Avian Mortality Event

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  Picture credits: BBC News / IOPA Facebook     I have already expressed my reservations regarding New Year's Eve fireworks in a post en...
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2 Jan 2021

D. H. Lawrence and the Arts: An Initial Reaction Written Under the Influence of Sour Grapes and Baudrillard

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Edinburgh University Press, (2020)     This new collection of essays on D. H. Lawrence, edited by Catherine Brown and Susan Reid, probably d...
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31 Dec 2020

I Don't Care if Monday's Blue ...

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(John Hopkins University Press, 1997)   I.   Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique (1967) is a novel by French writer Michel Tournier [a] . A...
30 Dec 2020

I'll Put a Knife Right In You: Notes on the Case of Sid and Nancy

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Sid and Nancy indulge in a little knife play for the camera Photos by Pierre Benain (1978)  snapgalleries.com     Sex Pistol Sid Vicious ha...
28 Dec 2020

Piquerism and Notes on Knife Play

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The Ballard of Jazz the Knife   (c. 1992)     I. Opening Remarks    Piquerism - for those of you unfamiliar with the practice - is a perver...