Thread: LOVE AND LUST AND AMELIA FOX: Not so epically egregious…..

I wish you well, Amelia Fox(1974- ), in the remaining two years of your young adulthood(1994-2014), your middle age(2014-2034) and late adulthood(2034-54)---as well as old-age(2054- ), if you last that long. There is, of course, no reason you should not last barring those slings and arrows which you must avoid if they fall into the category of severely outrageous fortune.

After a student-working life of half a century myself, 1949-1999, during which I had my share of the fantasy-erotic, you came into my life as your career unfolded in the final years of my own career(1996-2004) and the first years of my retirement: 2005 to 2012. I was able to continue that romantic fantasy with the erotic thanks to you and to many others who fill the electronic media these days. I'm sure you have served this role for millions of men. Good luck to you, Amelia, as you continue your own checkered romantic-erotic life.

I wrote the above after watching Amelia Fox: (i) in Consuming Passion, a 2008 British drama which celebrated the centenary of the publishing house Mills and Boon,1 and (ii) in many episodes of Silent Witness.-Ron Price with thanks to 1ABC2TV, 12:30-2:00 a.m., 27/3/’12.

Love and lust, fascination
with the erotic--hormones:
testosterone, & dopamine,
the basis of attachment with
oxitosin running meaning’s
show, one’s cosmology, partly,
along with a new world religion1
as was the case with me, while….

all-along the line I’ve had to deal
with my natural inclinations and an
immense industry of pornography,
to be free from enslavement, have
self-control & refinement as well as
handle what you might call: the trip--
the exquisitely idiosyncratic trip that is
my life, with no manual or cookbook to
deal with all the many problems, those
slings and arrows that come one’s way!

1 Even with the guidelines of this new religion, the Baha’i Faith, dealing with life’s treasures and exercising an appropriate self-control over my impulsiveness has not been easy. I learned over the decades that there is much more to religious life than piety, prayer and meetings. I’ve learned, too, that “one’s imperfections are not so epically egregious as to embarrass the seraphim ruefully yawning at their mention.”(Roger White, “Lines from a Battlefield,” Another Song Another Season, George Ronald, Oxford, 1979, p.111.

Ron Price
27 March 2012
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Amelia Fox looks like a tran-ny. Just sayin...

troll ha'i

Thanks for that Ron, you got me thinking how long I will live now. I will retire 2034 and die 2061 aged 90 years old.

It's time to revisit some of my threads at this site as the winter equinox Downunder approaches in the next week.-Ron

I wish you well too Ron. Life would be dull if we were all apples. There is room for more than one cinnamon stick on the forum. A taste acquired is not a taste to tire of. Yum indeed.

My dear Mr Greenbeanz,

Belated thanks for your post. While here I might post a thought or two about love and/or lust, always popular topics among the billions and millions.-Ron
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Philip Roth and Me

Part 1:

Philip Milton Roth(1933-) is an American novelist who first gained fame with his 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus. The book was an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life and it earned him a National Book Award. I was only 15 at the time, in grade 10 in a small town in southern Ontario, had just joined the Baha’i Faith, and only read what I had to. I memorized everything on the curriculum and its several syllabi because that was the way, then, to get the highest possible marks at high school. I was an ace in my studies as well as in baseball, even a home-run king back in the pee-wee baseball league.

In 1969 Roth became a major celebrity with the publication of the controversial Portnoy's Complaint the humorous and sexually explicit psychoanalytical monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," filled with "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language." By 1969 I had had my own experiences of lust as well as psychiatry due to my bipolar disorder. But I was no longer a bachelor, having got married in 1967. That same year I moved to Baffin Island to teach Inuit children.

Part 2:

Since those late 1950s Roth has become one of the most honoured authors of his generation. His books have twice been awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral, which featured his best-known character, Nathan Zuckerman, the subject of many other of Roth's novels. His 2001 novel The Human Stain, another story of Nathan Zuckerman, was awarded the United Kingdom's W.H. Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year.

Roth’s fiction is set frequently in Newark New Jersey. It is known for an intensely autobiographical character, for a philosophical and formal blurring of the distinction between reality and fiction, for a "supple, ingenious style," and for its provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity.(1) Since those late fifties and late sixties, I have become a successful, but quite ordinarily ordinary, teacher and lecturer of my generation. I have received no honours for my writing although, in the last three decades, I have written and published several million words, several books and now have millions of readers thanks to the internet.

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My writing is also intensely autobiographical, but the main character in my writing is me and I do not blur the line between reality and fiction. I would like to think my writing is, like Roth’s, supple and ingenious in style and provocative in its explorations of life, mine and society’s. I would like to think that, but I must leave such judgments to readers.-Ron Price with thanks to (1) Charles Simic, “The Nicest Boy in the World,” The New York Review of Books, 9 October 2008.

I’m intensely autobiographic, too,
Philip; but I go about it in a very
different way that you. And fame
is not part of my story…..my life-
narrative….We go after reality in
our own unique ways and I went
after it in writing much later in life
than you.....I was just getting into
my profession in my 20s, and you
were on your way to fame & glory.

Ron Price
12/11/'11 to 12/6/'14.

You are an incredible man, producing all of these enlightened essays and thoughts on all variety of topics. You don't post very often so I ask that you cast more of these nuggets our way so that we can continue to learn new things here. We need more of your essays.

Originally Posted by Gandalf

You are an incredible man, producing all of these enlightened essays and thoughts on all variety of topics. You don't post very often so I ask that you cast more of these nuggets our way so that we can continue to learn new things here. We need more of your essays.

No we do not, stop encouraging him. We have you.

On second reading this 'essay' is about Ron wanking to Amelia Fox. Kudos Ron.

Originally Posted by Gandalf

You are an incredible man, producing all of these enlightened essays and thoughts on all variety of topics. You don't post very often so I ask that you cast more osshf these nuggets our way so that we can continue to learn new things here. We need more of your essays.

I agree. The sheer myriad Of labyrinthine forking paths is tonically mesmerizing.
Like a subterfuge of juniper elixirs running up the spinal cord of Churchill on a Wednesday. Keep it coming Ron.

posted at legendary thread!

So there aren't any nude pictures of Amelia Fox? No videos of her shaking her ass? How did she get a name like that?

Originally Posted by greynotsoold

So there aren't any nude pictures of Amelia Fox? No videos of her shaking her ass? How did she get a name like that?

Probably about as close as you are going to get mate.

Gandalf's above encouragement, nicely balanced by the discouraging tendencies of others, help to provide a thread that functions as a fertile mix for the following on the themes of love and lust:
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RESPONDING TO THE WORLD

Part 1:

I first came across Leonard Cohen in the early months of 1968 when I was living on Baffin Island. Leonard Cohen had come to the music industry relatively late, having already established himself as a published novelist and poet, especially in the Montreal area, a city I only visited once or twice before leaving Canada in 1971.

Cohen turned his hand to music when his song 'Suzanne' became a hit for Judy Collins; in 1967 he went into the studio to cut his debut album for Columbia. Gerard Fannon, in his “Album Review: Songs of Leonard Cohen Columbia 1967” on 8 January 2009,(1) wrote that: “The ten songs on the album are beautifully constructed. Few lyricists have since been able to wrestle with the ideas of love, loss and longing quite so intelligently, articulately and ambiguously as Leonard Cohen. He depicts a world entirely at the mercy of the chaos that arises from love and lust, mastery and submission, the supplicant and the worshiped. Though his words may seem lofty or pretentious, they convey a deep-rooted sense of humanity.”

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“Many artists work their whole career", Fannon continues, “to create a work of such singular artistic vision as Songs of Leonard Cohen, and it is even more remarkable that Cohen achieved this the first time he set foot in a studio. Songs of Leonard Cohen remains an astonishing and enduring debut. -Ron Price with thanks to (1)the internet site: Suite101.com

I heard you again when they gave you
a tribute at the Sydney Opera House in
2005, Leonard, & I noted some of what
you had to say about writing: you wanted
to respond to the beauty in the world; you
do not command your work--it commands
you; you’ll never untangle life’s mysteries.

You do not dwell on the past or the future.
Fame and wealth came so early to you
with your first book of poetry and novel
before you were thirty. My writing took
decades longer; I really only got going in
my fifties and had to unload my career as
a teacher and all that community work so
that I could free my spirit to respond to the
beauty around me and engage symbiotically
with my real-life master-piece....if it is that..

My writing became my epic opus, my oeuvre,
by sensible and insensible degrees due to the
mysterious dispensations of Providence which,
as you say, Leonard, one never really untangles,
nor the leaven which leavens the world of being
and furnishes the power by which the wonders of
the world--the sciences and the arts--are manifest.

Ron Price
16/2/'09 to 12/6/'14.