Our Silences

[Varian P]

‘Who am I finally,’ she once wrote, ‘if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?’ -Pauline Reage, aka Dominique Aury. aka Anne Desclos on her authorship of "The Story of 'O'"

The Gilded "O"

 

[TxRad]

The silence of the dark and lonely is not tempered by the sounds of the light.

 

[Verdad]

‘Who am I finally,’ she once wrote, ‘if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?’ -Pauline Reage, aka Dominique Aury. aka Anne Desclos on her authorship of "The Story of 'O'"

The Gilded "O"

Varian!

I've seen that article. I've had de Sade's Justine in a Guido Crepax rendition. I think I might enjoy this too, though I'm frankly speaking not a fan of O.

Going back to silence, now.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I've always been impressed with "O" for its intelligence, and "O"'s completely self-aware nature.

And the sex is hella hot.

I've always hated the suicide ending. (there were two endings, one less final)

I've always detested the fact that the suicide ending was what, in the minds of the critics, allowed it to be more than 'mere pornography.' A happier ending would have dropped the book's status, because god forbid a masochist be happy!

And anything Crepax has illustrated is all right by me!