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WORKS THAT MENTION THE EROTIC
Trousers by Robert Walser (1911)
00:06:40 mp3 / No problems, except of course we are still in a war / ISBN 0940322986
KEYWORDS: Art, story, history of pants, hatred of knickerbockers, women, gentle longing for death.

Post Festum by Theodor Adorno (1964)
00:02:51 mp3 / Mispronounced English, German, Latin / ISSN 0028 6060
KEYWORDS: Philosophy, history, decay of erotic relationships, fear, after the "event," a guilty circle.

The rest is silent by Chris Marker (1995)
00:14:14 mp3 / Mispronounced Russian, French, Brazilian, German, Japanese, Italian, probably English too / ISBN 1881390101
KEYWORDS: History of silent film, no such thing as silent film, shoot the piano player, fixing emotions, Benshi, love of Clara Bow, large faces, color as sex.

Refugees of the new left by Andrew Kopkind (1973)
00:34:52 mp3 / No problems except the war / ISBN 1859849024
KEYWORDS: History, new left, Rennie Davis, Sally Kempton, New age spirituality as a form of resistance against hopelessness in the collapse and defeat of the new left, religious and cultist organizing, politics as extinct language.

Lust for loss by Lynne Tillman (2002)
00:19:43 mp3 / No problem reading / ISBN 1891024469
KEYWORDS: Art, story, Madame Realism, World War II, Omaha, Normandy, strangers, getting lost, get lost, routine as a kind of death, what we owe to the dead, a sea of crosses

Kissing by Voltaire (1764)
00:10:58 mp3 / Mispronounced French, Latin /ISBN 0140150412
KEYWORDS: Philosophy, “scholarly” treatise on kissing, too much kissing in theater, muscle of mouth lead directly to you know where, using mouth/kiss in other places/parts, stimulating.

Gastro-porn by Alexander Cockburn (1977)
00:30:19 mp3 / Uncontrollable laughter, mispronounced French, German, English / ISBN 0860911764
KEYWORDS: History, cookbooks as pornography, Brillat-Savarin is a long-winded bore, South of France, cuisine and imperialism, cold fish and mayonnaise.

Happiness in slavery by Jean Paulhan (1954)
00:30:30 mp3 / Mispronounced French / ISBN 0345301110
KEYWORDS: History, Philosophy, Barbados, slave rebellion, Story of O, Pauline Reage, freedom, love letter, scared of freedom, freedom as necessity, decency, absolute decency.