Posted on 06/13/2010 6:45:20 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
Love is never without jealousy – 17th century.
In some cultures, Catherine Millet is a whore. In another she is a darling libertine. Welcome to liberal France! So when Catherine Millet wrote The Sexual Life of Catherine M. the chattering classes embraced her various positions (and whips, my guess). Hers was a sexual life without boundaries and without a safety net. Playboy and Newsweek endorsed her “non-judgmental” open relationship, and the establishment classes schizophrenically judged people for judging her. She was their poster girl – to be left alone, or praised, but never to be questioned. Promiscuity brought her groovy friends. But then reality came knocking on the door.
Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M. exposes us to a world of consequences. Catherine Millet admits (p.17):
Although of course I never actually expressed it to myself like this, I must have credited my body with a kind of omnipotence, and been afflicted with a kind of megalomania which exclusively affected the way I thought about my body.
Or to put it ever so gently, Catherine Millet is not a god (something I could have told her for free). Libertarians (or at least adult-only libertarians) have suspicious minds, and their free-looking lives are often imprisoned by their community’s cultic pressures.
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I read the book. Man, what a snooze. Her attempts to make something meaningful of her unrestrained snogging made it a chore to get through. Anais Nin, Colette or a female Henry Miller she ain`t.
Who?
I have no idea who Catherine Millet is; but, this article made my memory flash on something.
In November 1994, President Bill Clinton and Hillary were at a Ford Theater Gala. Paula Poundstone was the host and and finally, Luther Vandross sang “Love The One You’re With”.
This was right when all the Bill Clinton “bimbo eruption” stories were starting.
When Vandross sang that song and the camera showed real enjoyment on Bill’s and Hillary’s faces, I finally realized that these people were beyond my experience and/or understanding. I had an epiphany and I saw the future of America - a low down kind of future.
At the time, it was actually a hurtful experience.
Great book!
LOL.
It is a shocker, to be sure.
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