Random Cool Things: James Joyce’s Dirty Letters

(Hat tip to Nicole Peeler, via Twitter)

It took quite an effort to find a excerpt tame enough to post (after all, we are a family site… I guess):

I would be delighted to feel my flesh tingling under your hand . Do you know what I mean, Nora dear? I wish you would smack me or flog me even. Not in play, dear, in earnest and on my naked flesh. I wish you were strong, strong, dear, and had a big full proud bosom and big fat thighs.  I would love to be whipped by you, Nora love! I would love to have done something to displease you, something trivial even, perhaps one of my rather dirty habits that make you laugh: and then to hear you call me into your room and then to find you sitting in an armchair with your fat thighs far apart and your face deep red with anger and a cane in your hand. To see you point to what I had done and then with a movement of rage pull me towards you and throw me face downwards across your lap. Then to feel your hands tearing down my trousers and inside clothes and turning up my shirt, to be struggling in your strong arms and in your lap, to feel you bending down (like an angry nurse whipping a child’s bottom) until your big full bubbies almost touched me and to feel you flog, flog, flog me viciously on my naked quivering flesh!! - (To Nora, 13 December 1909)

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5 Responses to “Random Cool Things: James Joyce’s Dirty Letters”

  1. Stew Says:

    big fat thighs to lay across so he can be spanked. Oh dear, not that it isn’t interesting but I’m not sure I need to read more.

  2. David O'Connor Thompson Says:

    My next planned book is to be on the topic of sex and sexuality - so thanks for enticing me into this strange world.

  3. William Haskins Says:

    thanks for stopping by, david, best wishes on the book.

  4. kimmi Says:

    Double hat tip!!

    And big congrats on your 2000. Awesome.
    x0

    kimmis last blog post..Book Trailer, The Unbreakable Child, ALA 2009 Conference

  5. Nicole Peeler Says:

    And people think that James Joyce is just for English Nerds!! :-) Little do they know he’s a filthy Terrence and Philip. Glad you enjoyed the tweet and thanks for the shout out!

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