>Justine, Juliette, Eugénie ~ but no Pauline that I can find. Should be, it's
>such a Sadean name somehow, and we have _The Perils of Pauline_ by Charles
>Goddard (the jolly hockeysticks version of the Divine M., summed up in the
>following:<"You dear, silly boy," she cried, returning a step and clasping
>him in an impetuous embrace. "You are the nicest brother in all the
>world -sometimes -- but just now I think that adventure is nicer than
>brothers-- or husbands. I'm having the time of my life, Harry boy, and I'm
>going on and on, and on with it until I've seen all the wild and wicked
>people and places in the world.">) Then there was _Pauline 1880_ by the
>great French poet Pierre Jean Jouve with a heroine who enters a convent,
>then has a sinful adulterous relationship with a Comte of whatever, whom she
>eventually murders. Not to forget the pseudonym 'Pauline Réage' for the male
>author of _L'histoire d'O_. Did one of those put you on the track?
All of which is most helpful, Martin. But if that final sentence is
correct, were the 2nd volume, & the stories about the woman, with photos,
who wrote _L'histoire d'O_ for a lover just anohter fiction? I certainly
got the impression that it was, finally, just the facts, ma'am...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
'The Critic"
I cannot possibly think of you
other than you are: the assassin
of my orchards. You lurk there
in the shadows, meting out
conversation like Eve's first
confusion between penises and
snakes. Oh be droll, be jolly
and be temperate! Do not
frighten me more than you
have to! I must live forever.
Frank O'Hara
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