Patrick McManus wrote:
> Well how about a prostitute with just one client? souuds like marriage
> P old gigolo ho!
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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
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