March 2013
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October 15, 1982 - White House Press Briefing →
Q: Larry, does the President have any reaction to the announcement—the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, that AIDS is now an epidemic and have over 600 cases? MR. SPEAKES: What’s AIDS? Q: Over a third of them have died. It’s known as “gay plague.” (Laughter.) No, it is. I mean it’s a pretty serious thing that one in every three people that get this have died. And I wondered if the...
“I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and...”
– Ingmar Bergman (via adieufranz)
February 2013
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“My hand touched his organ. I was sexually aroused, but no more than usual in...”
– From a letter to Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, reprinted in Ulrichs’ The Riddle of “Man-Manly” Love, first published in 1864 under the pseudonym “Numa Numantius.” This excerpt from Michael A. Lombardi-Nash’s translation, 1994, vol. 1.
January 2013
4 posts
“The inclinations of virgins to marriage is to be known by many symptoms; for...”
– From Aristotle’s Masterpiece, unknown author, ca 1684.
I’ve been rereading this late 17th century tract — an entry in the fine western tradition of sexual education-cum-pornography (pun intended) — and having a lovely time with it. You can read the full book at Ex-Classics...
July 2012
3 posts
May 2012
4 posts
Lady in the streets but a freak in the bed.
Always makes me think of a woman in backseamed thigh-highs who removes her prosthetic legs before bedtime.
If that’s what Luda meant, he’s my kind of man.
March 2012
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“In 1904 Fasel had an operation at Brooklyn’s German Hospital to remove the...”
– The Virtual Dime Museum: Brooklyn’s Human Ostrich
February 2012
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January 2012
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“Erard… begins by visiting Bologna, Italy, the hometown of one of history’s...”
– From the New York Times review of Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners.
December 2011
7 posts
“Now the staff at Townend House in Troutbeck have made a good discovery: a...”
– Library book overdue by 123 years - but George Washington still holds the record | UK news | guardian.co.uk
“The result, as the historian Lawrence W. Levine has written, ‘is a mélange...”
– 19th-century American Women: Ex-Slave Ellen Butler’s Christmas Memories - an addendum, quoted from the Library of Congress’s site, about the language of recorded interviews held with former slaves.
November 2011
5 posts
October 2011
2 posts
