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http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/ButterflyStory.html > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:06:22 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: The Business of Poetry > To: [log in to unmask] > > Patrick McManus wrote: > > Well how about a prostitute with just one client? souuds like marriage > > P old gigolo ho! > > > > > Left field. A story by Pierre Loti, c. 188something, called *Madame > Chrysantheme*, about a French naval officer who puts into a Japanese > port and decides to rent himself a toy for his shore leave: a wife who > comes with her own house. The expected shenanigans apply. After the > month is up, the sailor returns to his ship and in a moment of sentiment > asks the woman to walk down to the dock with him. Presumably she's > gotten her fee up front. He tells her something along the lines of > "You're really not very good in bed but you're a sweet girl, so here's > extra for your fee." She is so sentimental she bites down on the gold > coins to make sure they are real. > > A few years later David Belasco got hold of the basic idea and turned it > into the somewhat more famous and profoundly sentimental *Madame > Butterfly*, upon which the opera was based. > > It sounds like Haight-Ashbury in 1967. > > Ken > > -- > > ---------------------------- > > Ken Wolman > > > > http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com > > http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman > > http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html > > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3