#1 07-04-07 10:59:12

0beron

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From: Melbourne

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Alan Moore's new fuck book

Alan Moore, the guy who wrote the graphic novels Watchmen (1) and V for Vendetta (2), has released a new book, Lost Girls, and has written an article in defense of smut.

The article is long, but worth the read, canvassing a great deal of history - paleolithic man and his obsession with porn worked in stone and painted on cave walls, the Greeks and Romans with their adoration of beautiful bodies found everywhere in their art (prior to Christianity), the Dark Ages with their cunt-splaying sheela-na-gigs (3) decorating the churches, the Renaissance and the origin of dirty books, one of the original uses of the printing-press, Victorian repression and the heartbreaking destruction of the work of William Blake (4), and the trial of Oscar Wilde, and the current schizophrenic funk we now find ourselves in, encouraged to both consume pornography in greater quantities than ever before, whilst simultaneously being made ashamed of doing so (5).

The money-shot of the article is found in the last half-dozen or so paragraphs, if you can't be bothered with the whole thing.  Your loss.

I don't own a copy of Lost Girls, so I can't tell you if it's good or bad.  Moore is a very good writer, however.  The deluxe edition linked to above is AUD$115, so I'll probably not buy it (6).  But I do have a plan.  I think I can probably go into Minotaur and photograph every page with a high-megapixel camera, provided that some of the IFM girls are hanging around under the security cameras to... distract the attention of the staff.  Provided the girls are... distracting enough, it should be relatively simple to get a clean facsimile of the book.

Anyone interested?  If so, place a phalaenopsis orchid (7) on your windowsill where it is visible from the street between the hours of 8 and 10 at night.  If you don't have the right kind of orchid, simply play the Un Bel Di aria from Madama Butterfly (8) at full volume all day Sunday and Monday.  You'll be contacted privately.

Alternatively, you could just peruse these Wicked Wanda cartoons (9), scanned from 1970s copies of Penthouse.
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Footnotes
(1) Soon to be a major motion picture!
(2) Now out on DVD!
(3) Yes, like that PJ Harvey song
(4) Moore blames Blake's widow for this, but as far as I know her only fault was in turning over his manuscripts and paintings to some small-minded bluenoses who in an act of unalloyed fuckwittery burned that material they deemed too sexually explicit or blasphemous to be published.  Thanks, guys.  I mean, I love Blake's poetry.  I really do.  But it's very easy to form an opinion of him as a kindly old English gent, rather sexless, when he was actually a great celebrant of randiness.  The way things are, you have to read 'O Rose, Thou Art Sick', and just pretend its about something else than it probably actually is.
(5) I read somewhere that the UN's World Health Organisation had computed somehow that, counted globally, there were 100 million orgasms every day, or roughly 1160 every second.  Every time you walk outdoors the air is abuzz with orgasms, buffeting you from every corner of the globe.  Near the start of the movie Amelie, the title character estimates, for fun, the number of people climaxing at that instant and hits on the number 16.  This is either too high, if she was restricting the population to Paris (or even France), or too low, if she was taking into account everyone on the planet.  I note, however, that in the orgasm-montage that follows the only orgasms shown are those achieved by fucking, so possibly Amelie excluded masturbators.
(6) I wouldn't spend $115 on a new kidney to save my own life.
(7) Not a paphiopedilum.  That's going to clash with another operation I have running.  And don't give me any crap about how phals aren't currently in bloom.  I'm looking at one right now, and it's blooming like crazy.  Do you want to participate or not?
(8) Monserrat Caballe's rendition works for me - Christ Almighty that girl has got a set of lungs on her.
(9) Yeah, okay, I know.  That link is obviously routed through a 14.4K modem.  Try this link to the site from the Wayback Machine.  In fact, this link will take you right to the cartoons themselves.  That's all the help you're getting.  What do you want me to do, scroll for you?

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aven frey

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Re: Alan Moore's new fuck book

Hey nice one Oberon, I find Alan Moore super interesting so thanks. Cate lent me the Lost Girls not long ago and it's pretty cool. Lots of taboos, very wankable! 

p.s I love that you have footnotes, first time I've seen footnotes on an internet forum, we should be friends!!

Desertgirl44

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Re: Alan Moore's new fuck book

Thanks for the links Oberon. That article by Moore is a very interesting read - the history of pornography down through the centuries. Fascinating stuff. It's a very long article, but worth reading.

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dandio

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Registered: 24-03-07

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Re: Alan Moore's new fuck book

I've heard about Lost Girls, but I don't think I'd read it unless someone let me borrow it.  It's very expensive and I don't like much of the art that I've seen from it. 

Moore is my second favorite comic writer (second to Neil Gaiman), but I feel sometimes he can be a bit heavy handed or even obtuse when trying to make a point.  I just read his Top 10 books and they were really great, classic Moore deconstructing the super-hero comic.  He had two storylines that dealt with sexuality and two others that dealt with racism, but one of each of those storylines seemed forced and one-dimensional while the other had context with what was happening in the plot.