‘A proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art’; Robert Louis Stevenson adopts this provocative position in his 1884 essay, ‘A Humble Remonstrance’,[1] written as a rejoinder to Henry James’s ‘The Art of Fiction’,[2] which had appeared a few months earlier, also in Longman’s Continue Reading
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THE POLITICS OF HOLDING THE DOOR
You’ve all heard it, haven’t you? How now, if you hold a door for a woman, you’re some kind of a “sexist”; how now, if you compliment a woman, or flirt with a woman, or tell a woman she’s looking sexy today, or just gently brush up against her breast, Continue Reading
Devlin’s Posthumous Letter from Morocco
Editor’s Introduction : We present here a short excerpt from Martin Caulder’s recently discovered pseudonymous work, first published by Olympia Press in 1964 in the “Traveller’s Companion” series of erotica for gentlemen. The original title, The Devil in a Woman’s Form, is believed to have been chosen at the last Continue Reading
Faerie Gold
We have been there. We have lived to tell the tale. Slipped sideways, parted the veil. We have walked between the worlds. You and I, we have made pilgrimage to the Hollow Hills, we have stood upon the heath and let the wild wind of the Otherworld take us where Continue Reading
What Would You do if You Weren’t Afraid?
It was the start of the Summer. We were on Quai Henri IV, and there was no one else around. He showed me this. We sat there for a really long time without saying anything. I started crying. I think he might have been crying too, but I didn’t look. Continue Reading