A Plague Of Passions
Andrew Shaw
THE SMALL TOWN OF COALTOWN WAS REMARKABLY NORMAL... THAT IS, IT ALWAYS had been... until the hospitals began filling with bubonic plague patients. Swiftly the unbelievable happenings and excesses of Boccaccio‘s time began to happen in the twentieth century! In Sex in Society, Alex Comfort noted: „The frankly sexual manifestations of sadism and masochism are most commonly expressed as fantasies. But sexual fantasies of this kind, and the less obviously sexual manifestations of sadism, do tend to become important in all such societies as a means of government. . . An atrocity, in the sense in which the word has been lately employed, is not only a barbarous action but one having specifically sexual overtones... This excitement is of a kind which few individuals are able to admit to themselves... Some of the violence which there still is, moreover, and which erupts to shock the citizens, is not the product of sadism so much as of exasperation.“ The mob was exasperated, all right. They believed that they were doomed in a death-town, and that nobody was doing anything about it... so they decided to burn everything…
კატეგორია:
წელი:
1966
გამოცემა:
1st
გამომცემლობა:
Greenleaf
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
168
ISBN:
404404404404
სერია:
EL-356
ფაილი:
EPUB, 301 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 1966