Source: The Life of the World to Come (2004), Chapter 11, “Christmas Meeting” (p. 181)
“The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.”
"The Wet Dream Film Festival" (1971), p. 57
The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986)
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