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9 months, 2 weeks ago

three of the most important orifices of my organism

After that, things got hot and heavy. What I mean is, up to that point, we’d talked a lot, but in the two hours the business magnate spent resting in my company, we barely talked at all. He was too busy paying homage to three of the most important orifices of my organism. I’m not going to tell you …

—p.133 The Last Dream Confessions of a Sex Symbol (125) by Pedro Almodóvar
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9 months, 2 weeks ago

not once has he come face-to-face with an evil

Brother Benito is periodically absent from the convent. He has read Matthew G. Lewis’s novel The Monk and dreams of being confronted by the temptations that lure the novel’s protagonist to his perdition but has had no such good fortune . . . although the presence of the Count may change this medioc…

—p.54 The Mirror Ceremony (47) by Pedro Almodóvar
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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Genet was a sauce we sometimes used

For those who had known him since that start to his career, the second Streetcar was a metatheatrical show in which they witnessed a conversation between the León of twenty-five years ago and the delirious León-Blanco-Blanche of today, as strong and arrogant as the Polack, but more intelligent, wit…

—p.30 Too Many Gender Swaps (27) by Pedro Almodóvar
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9 months, 2 weeks ago

without dressing in drag

Against all odds, and after attempting to convince León that we could be very bold as long as we didn’t fall into the grotesque, I got down to work and adapted T. Williams’s drama so that a 198-pound, forty-five-year-old León could play Blanche DuBois, without dressing in drag. It was a challenge f…

—p.29 Too Many Gender Swaps (27) by Pedro Almodóvar
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we’ll call him Blanco del Bosque

—Why are you talking about gender? —León complained—. When have we ever cared about gender? We’ll call him Blanco del Bosque. I’ll lose a bit of weight and fuck that brute Kowalski. If Tennessee could see it, he’d be thrilled to finally have a guy fuck Kowalski. It’s a lot more humiliating for the …

—p.28 Too Many Gender Swaps (27) by Pedro Almodóvar