Collected Essays
Page 55
(From Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
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See pp. 84 ff. of Buddhism, Its Essence and Development by Edward Conze, Preface by Arthur Waley. New York, Philosophical Library, 1951.
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Plutarch, who wrote some five hundred years after the event, is by no means an unquestionable authority. The habit of which he and Thucydides speak may have facilitated the spread of the homosexual fashion. But that the fashion existed before the fifth century is made sufficiently clear by Homer, not to mention Sappho. Like many modern oriental peoples, the ancient Greeks were evidently, in Sir Richard Burton’s expressive phrase, “omnifutuent.”
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Male Continence, sex as a sacrament and coitus as a long-drawn cognitive exchange of “social magnetism” have been discussed in contemporary medical terms by Dr. Rudolf von Urban whose book Sexual Perfection and Marital Happiness is one of the most significant modern contributions to the solution of an age-old problem.
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By D. H. Lawrence. New York, Knopf, 1926.
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Oh happy, happy bug—more happy than the Phoenix on its oriental pyre!
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I have borrowed the phrase from Shestov. ‘La Revelation de la Mort’ is the title, in its French translation, of one of his most interesting books.
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