Story of O: My God!
The politeness in which lovers show their affection for one another is as varied at the lovers
themselves. Some choose to clear adoration through gift giving, others, through poetry or prose. O shows hers through sadomasochistic embarrassment and brutal flagellation. To each her own . . .
O is a young Parisian photographer, idiotically in love with Rene. She will do anything to keep his love and is utterly terrified by the notion of losing him. We learn that the two have been together for some time before Rene brings O to a frail French chateau, Roissy, a very exclusive men’s association of sorts. But this is no ordinary evening out. The boundaries of O’s devotedness to Rene are to be tested, as she is willingly blindfolded, bound, and time after time violated in multiple ways by multiple partners. After her misfortune she is left at Roissy by Rene for several days, where in addition to more feigned sex, she is brutally chained to walls and whipped without mercy, all to end up to her love to Rene. Upon leaving Roissy, O is marked by an iron annulus forced onto her finger, to signify to anyone familiar with the ways of the chateau that she is theirs for the engaging, whenever and wherever they please.
Bye bye baby boomers
Watching Scorsese's late movie Shine a Light on the Rolling Stones, I couldn't keep from feeling that I was witnessing the final act of the "baby boomers" - the creation born between the end of the Second World War and 1960. I remember playing in a gang at the same gig as the Rolling Stones in the summer of 1964. It was a college ball at Oxford. Mick pouted at the audience.
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