>>24472504 >So many modern books will age extremely poorly because they're referencing the most niche bullshit only extremely online mental patients will understand
>>24472531
It is not embarassing. You have to analyze. She is crawling through the "doggy" door in order to get "ducked." It's a beautiful, poetic image that sums up her work.
>>24472551
She is crawling through the "back door" or "doggy door" of the house, in search of a beautiful "duck" and she has a "pink purse" in her arm, expecting it to "get filled" or stuffed with "something." What the something is is anybody's guess. It's kind of like trick or treating. It might be that she expects $$$ or it could be a "big black clock."
It's brilliant. I have to look up the work of this photographer.
>>24472367
Different. She's like Henry James in a clear mode. Late 19th century American society is just too different from the early 19th century English countryside to make a meaningful comparison. Both are excellent writers
>>24473925
If you had seen any of her dogshit posts on here, you'd understand. She comes on here to self-shill all the time, only recently she's started doing it without namefagging. She's probably in this thread right now. (spooky)
>>24472034 (OP)
This makes me think of petplay/animal play, which is extremely hot. Making a girl behave like a dog or a cat or some other animal as part of the sexual act. Naturally because I am a fatfag and enjoy large ladies, it's pigplay for me. Making a girl wear ears and a curly tail, and oink and snort. It's very hot. There's some videos of BBW porn stars doing it that are quite hot.
>>24475872
I was at a neighbourhood party once when I was a kid, and all the parents were drunk and egging me on to crawl through the doggy-door.
I did it, obviously. They all laughed and clapped.
>>24477035
Daisy Miller, Portrait, Washington Square, and many of the stories are very clear-- and Wharton's best novels are at least better than these (Age of Innocence, House of Mirth). Where Wharton and James are most similar is in their Travel writing, but then they often traveled together, so
