a picture of a page from GR, --which means some of you can't "read' it--full of, somehow, as with TRP, relevant sexual politics.

[Jochen Stremmel]

re: absolute comfort

Ein Weib ist manchmal ein ganz brauchbares Surrogat für die
Selbstbefriedigung. Freilich gehört ein Übermaß von Phantasie dazu.
(A woman is sometimes quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
True, it takes an excess of imagination.)

Am Fr., 22. Feb. 2019 um 13:05 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>:

> This scene is seldom-quoted, probably because outside of the major
> plotlines.
>
>  I am reminded of what someone--was it Iris Murdoch?-- said of
> Shakespeare, that his greatness is shown MOST by his minor characters--and
> his language, of course. Anyone could do his plots (since 33 of them were
> previously used anyway). But he changed them all for the better with his
> genius as well.
>
> https://twitter.com/trysterobooks/status/1095992919457026048
>
> Joanna Freer
> <
> https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&biw=1323&bih=859&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Joanna+Freer%22&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivl864g7vgAhURZd8KHWkzC9oQ9AgIODAC
> >
> -
> 2014 - ‎Preview
> <
> https://books.google.com/books?id=LQlQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA49&dq=%2B+rudi+%2B+vanya&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivl864g7vgAhURZd8KHWkzC9oQuwUIOTAC
> >
> -
> ‎More editions
> <
> https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&biw=1323&bih=859&tbm=bks&q=editions:t_qZmsWs2UcC&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivl864g7vgAhURZd8KHWkzC9oQmBYIOjAC
> >
> ... where the reader is introduced to a small group of young German
> communist revolutionaries – Leni, Rudi, Vanya, and Rebecca – crouching in a
> cold, cheerless, derelict dormitory, nibbling on a crust of bread and
> discussing “street tactics” ...
> --
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