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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/7/2006 10:17:21 PM

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"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."

Thomas Merton

Edited to add one more obvious one I just thought of. The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald. It is explicit with the submissive Myrtle craving being slapped around and made to play puppy.

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/8/2006 3:49:05 AM

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I just love the topic thread - found a few more quotations (I like looking for them; and think it's a fun topic thread) -

"Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm;
for love is as strong as death" - (from Song of Solomon).

"For stony limits cannot hold love out"
- (from Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare)

Sidenote: I know these choices might not seem particularly bdsm oriented; but that all depends on how one wants to look at them, I think, and imagine what context they could work in...I also realize that love isn't necessary for a simple D/s dynamic to exist (my opinion - I do like the quotes, though).

- Susan

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/8/2006 11:23:12 PM

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Another favorite, for D/s and erotic love generally:

Good God, what a night that was,
The bed was so soft, and how we clung,
Burning together, lying this way and that,
Our uncontrollable passions
Flowing through our mouths.
If I could only die that way,
I'd say goodbye to the business of living.

--Petronius (1st C. Roman)

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/10/2006 9:05:52 PM

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I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough
to make every minute holy.
I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough
just to lie before you like a thing,
shrewd and secretive.
I want my own will,
and I want simply to be with my will,
as it goes toward action,
and in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times
when something is coming near,
I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone.
I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
and I never want to be blind, or to be too old
to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.
I want to unfold.
I don't want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
And I want my grasp of things
true before you. I want to describe myself
like a painting that I looked at
closely for a long time,
like a saying that I finally understood,
like the pitcher I use every day,
like the face of my mother,
like a ship
that took me safely
through the wildest storm of all.

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/10/2006 9:42:16 PM

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ORIGINAL: mistoferin

Is there written word that you have encountered that strikes your BDSM chords?

Hey mist, and all....

Here's a really insightful poem
that has a lot to say about dominance/surrender..

it speaks powerfully from the dom side..

The Question

Love, a question
has destroyed you.

I have come back to you
from thorny uncertainty.

I want you straight as
the sword or the road.

But you insist
on keeping a nook
of shadow that I do not want.

My love,
understand me,
I love all of you,
from eyes to feet, to toenails,
inside,
all the brightness, which you kept.

It is I, my love,
who knocks at your door.

It is not the ghost, it is not
the one who once stopped
at your window.

I knock down the door:
I enter your life:
I come to live in your soul:
you cannot cope with me.

You must open door to door,
you must obey me,
you must open your eyes
so that I may search in them,
you must see how I walk
with heavy steps
along all the roads
that, blind, were waiting for me.

Do not fear,
I am yours,
but
I am not the passenger or the beggar,
I am your master,
the one you were waiting for,
and now I enter
your life,
no more to leave it,
love, love, love,
but to stay.

Pablo Neruda

ps... works much better read aloud.

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/10/2006 9:44:33 PM

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What I should like to find is a crime, the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life, even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general disturbance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

- Donatien Alphonse François, le Marquis de Sade

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/10/2006 10:01:25 PM

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ORIGINAL: mistoferin

Is there written word that you have encountered that strikes your BDSM chords?

Hey Mist, and all....

Here's another one, more subby,
and, I think really beautiful.

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours,
and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese,

high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are,
no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese,
harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

**************
You do not have to be good.

What a radical thought.
You don't have to be a good "normal" girl.
You don't have to be a "good" submissive
You don't have to be a "good" slut...

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Isn't that just about the essence of kink?

I see all kinds of instructions here
on how to be a good sub...
and a bit on what makes a good dom...

But dammit, ... for me...
when the "animal of my body"
gets it right... gets in synch with her energies...
and just loves what it loves... without any hesitation or weakness....
... that does it for me.
Don't we all wish we could get there more?
I do.

... the world offers itself to your imagination...
I love this line...

... harsh and exciting...

you don't often hear songs of the glories of harsh, do ya?

... announcing your place in the family of things...
and it all wraps up here...
brings the "don't have to be good"
the animal of our body,
the offering of the world,
harsh excitement....
all into a place in the family of things...

DD, an artsy-fartsy old goat...

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/11/2006 3:36:18 AM

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Mine would be from the Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare.

This selection is my fav:

Thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintence; commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land;
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at they hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience-

And when she is forward, peevish, sullen sour And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel, And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I am ashamed that women are so simple, To offer war, where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule,, supremacy, and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/11/2006 6:17:42 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: irishbynature

Mine would be from the Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare.

This selection is my fav:

Thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintence; commits his body
To painful labour both by sea and land;
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at they hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience-

And when she is forward, peevish, sullen sour And not obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel, And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I am ashamed that women are so simple, To offer war, where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule,, supremacy, and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.

This is also one of my favorites.

Nina

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RE: Literature that strikes a BDSM chord in you - 7/11/2006 6:20:33 AM

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A novel I was drawn to in the 8th grade, I'm surprised no one has mentioned it as of yet:

Often they quarreled, and she would not speak to him for a while; but this always reduced him to subjection, and he crawled before her. He was angry with himself for showing so little dignity. He grew furiously jealous if he saw her speaking to any other man in the shop, and when he was jealous he seemed to be beside himself. He would deliberately insult her, leave the shop and spend afterwards a sleepless night tossing on his bed, by turns angry and remorseful. Next day he would go to the shop and appeal for forgiveness.

– Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham

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