“The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.”
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Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 4
“THEIR SEX LIFE
One failure on
top of another”
The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)
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One failure on
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