The Old Harlot's Dream
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| '''''The Old Harlot's Dream'''''[http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-09-20/zvikjHCcrAgiJxcaceJfaidpHqABxrxwzblBaokdlIxIpAlImyIBlkJxBBuF/Trow.jpeg.scaled1000.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQ&Expires=1346853388&Signature=OHstAZCfobwWisu8dbk4lRT6vak%3D][http://metalonmetalblog.tumblr.com/post/30927411627/thomas-rowlandson-13-july-1756-21-april-1827] is a watercolour drawing by [[Thomas Rowlandson]]. | '''''The Old Harlot's Dream'''''[http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-09-20/zvikjHCcrAgiJxcaceJfaidpHqABxrxwzblBaokdlIxIpAlImyIBlkJxBBuF/Trow.jpeg.scaled1000.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQ&Expires=1346853388&Signature=OHstAZCfobwWisu8dbk4lRT6vak%3D][http://metalonmetalblog.tumblr.com/post/30927411627/thomas-rowlandson-13-july-1756-21-april-1827] is a watercolour drawing by [[Thomas Rowlandson]]. | ||
| - | :The Old Harlot's Dream (undated) is an elaborate fantasia featuring a recumbent, sexed-out, desiccated hag asleep and while asnooze dreaming of her past professional life as a prostitute. Leering clients, [[Independent_body_parts#Genitalia|disembodied virile members]], and tableaus of her first and last sexual encounters swirl around her as if in an opium pipe-dream [[phantasmagoria]]. The [[wages of sin]] appear to be poverty, premature aging, and nightmares, the golden years of retirement turned to lead by the alchemy of too much fornication for hire - and the sharp eye of Thomas Rowlandson. So much for a life of pleasure; the road of excess leads not to wisdom but to [[wizendom]]. | + | :The Old Harlot's Dream (undated) is an elaborate fantasia featuring a recumbent, sexed-out, desiccated hag asleep and while asnooze dreaming of her past professional life as a prostitute. Leering clients, [[Independent_body_parts#Genitalia|disembodied virile members]], and tableaus of her first and last sexual encounters swirl around her as if in an opium pipe-dream [[phantasmagoria]]. The [[wages of sin]] appear to be poverty, premature aging, and nightmares, the golden years of retirement turned to lead by the alchemy of too much fornication for hire - and the sharp eye of Thomas Rowlandson. So much for a life of pleasure; the road of excess leads not to wisdom but to [[wizendom]].[http://www.booktryst.com/2010/10/old-harlots-dream-nsfw.html] |
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The Old Harlot's Dream[1][2] is a watercolour drawing by Thomas Rowlandson.
- The Old Harlot's Dream (undated) is an elaborate fantasia featuring a recumbent, sexed-out, desiccated hag asleep and while asnooze dreaming of her past professional life as a prostitute. Leering clients, disembodied virile members, and tableaus of her first and last sexual encounters swirl around her as if in an opium pipe-dream phantasmagoria. The wages of sin appear to be poverty, premature aging, and nightmares, the golden years of retirement turned to lead by the alchemy of too much fornication for hire - and the sharp eye of Thomas Rowlandson. So much for a life of pleasure; the road of excess leads not to wisdom but to wizendom.[3]
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