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"The High Altar Of The Temple Of Love"
New York, 5:38 AM
Fri Dec 11
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Imagine what else would be in the IKEA showroom with this bed: Bear rugs! Candelabra! Chandeliers!
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Was being a courtesan a good thing, at the time? At the time, if you held that position, were you relatively free, relatively well-cared for, relatively powerful, etc. -- or were you treated like fancy hooker? I'm guessing it depended on the company you were in -- average people might have looked askance, but in your own life and profession, you may have had some amount of autonomy and power that made the whole thing worth it -- but I am TOTALLY guessing at this point.
Don't mind me, I'm a geek.
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But, I think, a large majority of these women weren't all that powerful or well treated.
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Whenever people talk about the good old days and wanting to return there-to, I just think: Nope. Not me. I like my right to vote, my right to go to Harvard, and the fact that no one likes the KKK anymore. I'll stay right here. (Plus: Better health care and more coffee).
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@ellaesther: I too am grateful for my right to go to harvard..although sometimes I feel like I'v learned more in 3 years post-harvard than i did in m6 5 years there. school of life more valuable than harvard? you dont say!
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Oh, cum on - you're ruining my fantasies.
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Oh, now that really spurts.
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Hm. Who's auctioning that again?
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It's TIME For Romance!
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Please PLEASE tell me you still have these somewhere. I am a huge fan of his artistic interpretations of the English language.
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I don't think it'll work on this bed. No knobs.
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The knob isn't necessary for said spell; substitutiary locomotion works on all inanimate objects.
The bed flying spell is something about fireflies or something.
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I'm a giant nerd. good lord.. i need to go lie down.
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Then I realized you felt like Princess Jasmin not a princess actually having intercourse with Jasmin. I liked the first way better.
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