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A Night in the Theatre - new story

 Dear friends, I have issued a new story: https://literotica.com/s/a-night-in-the-theatre A play in a play featuring an actress, young, and a director/ writer, famous and feared by all. She auditions for the role of a submissive. During the audition she learns she is to be nude on stage.  The story is very much set in post-#MeToo times, so the directive is not taken for granted. Still, she is broken down, but rises triumphantly. How it ends? Perhaps not as you'd be led to expect. Vanna

A new poem of mine: my attributes their proper name

I published a new poem on Literotica: https://www.literotica.com/p/my-attributes-their-proper-name  I am not a true poet, but I have tried. Vanna (Vita)

Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday

I have just seen the Mothering Sunday film - I liked it. It very poetically portrays the rite of passage the maid Jane Fairchild undergoes, triggered by the delicate love scene with Master Paul of Beechwood and his demise immediately following (was it an accident?) The way she strolls naked through the deserted Beechwood, when he is gone and probably already dead, unbeknownst to her, especially its library, is full of wonder. The book bears the same mood, but is subtly different on details. Loved the book too, 5, 6 years ago, and find that Graham Swift wonderfully paints a picture of a maid, laid bare at a defining juncture in her life. The point I want to make is this – In the cancel culture we live in, should a man, Graham Swift, be allowed to be the spokesperson of a naked maid in all her free glory and sensuousness? Isn’t it exploitation? We live in an age where a white actress can’t play a Puerto Rican anymore, where a black female poet cannot be translated anymore by a wh

The other two Sally Rooneys

In addition to Sally Rooney's 'Normal People', I have now read her first novel 'Conversations with Friends' and I am mid-way through her third, 'Beautiful World Where are you?' I have enjoyed and am still enjoying all three. She is called a leading millenial author. Insecurity, doubts and submissive thoughts are unmistakable characteristics of a millenials mind, so it seems. This confirms my own impressions of  some of the real-life millenials I know (and love.) For whatever thay have mentally gained compared to my generation, simplicity is not one of those things. When I was young you were either going out with someone or not, and going out meant certain things. These days, the shades of black or white are endless - shades of grey. If grey is happiness, fine.

'Annette' with Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard

I saw 'Annette', the motion picture musical written by Sparks and starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. It is beautifully done and the actors give great performances, but it is hard to love. I do recommend everyone to go and try, though, as it is worth it. The film has the form of a fairy tale. This point is emphasised by the opening and closing segments, where the actors introduce and close the narrative as themselves, not in role. These segments also help to lighten the mood, quite necessarily, as the fairy tale is a dark one. Adam Driver plays a hard-hitting 'comedy' man, very popular in spite of his dark humour and audience insulting. Marion Cotillard is his contrast, a sweet opera star, who sings, sings, sings and dies, dies, dies every night - which turns out to be an omen. Their marriage is a major showbiz event. In the beginning of the fairy tale, Adam Driver sings about how easy it is to love her and understand why, but about himself he is not so sure. He

'Normal People' by Sally Rooney - a masochist protagonist

I recommend the novel by Sally Rooney: 'Normal People.' Apart from the fact that it is simply a well-written book, longlisted for the Booker price of that year (2015), it deals with a 'mildly' masochistic protagonist. No, none of the cute BDSM parafernalia we see in the 50 Shades series. Marianne, whilst extremely smart, has been tainted by mental and perhaps physical abuse. The abuse is not addressed amply, but is little more than hinted at, at the hands of her deceased father, those of the absent mother and of the omnipresent brother. The result is a young woman, who has difficulties maintaining a normal relationship and invites further abuse - not of the cute kind. The relationship with her best friend Cornell is that of soul-mates and off-and-on lovers - people that belong together but can't stay together. I was reminded of the relationship of Hermann and Clarissa in  Die Zweite Heimat.  

The origin of one of my fetishes

I have fetishes and am ready to admit this. One of them is exhibitionism. I like to show myself in the nude in places and circumstances where this is not normally appropriate. My aim is not to offend or disturb, but to stimulate myself. Not be seen stimulating myself; that is done afterwards. I have thought a lot about what started me on this road. This is one of the reasons: https://www.dr.dk/bonanza/serie/473/tv-t---70erne/52080/doedens-triumf  (the German version showed 'explicit' nudity.) https://www.dr.dk/bonanza/serie/473/tv-t---70erne/63680/doedens-triumf  ('explicit' excerpt on  https://youtu.be/XHhtIRJtQoc ) Dødens triumf (The triumph of death), Ballet for TV by Flemming Flindt and Eugène Ionesco with music by Thomas Koppel played by Savage Rose I saw part of this Danish theatre performance as a very young girl on German TV, by chance, and could not believe what I saw. I did not know the word Erotic, or the concept, for that matter. But to see fully nude women