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...woman. I can grovel before the original of this superb, unabashed sexual woman without a qualm. I ask only to bring the beauty of her limpid prose before the English-speaking world. Though if the reader will permit, I have stopped somewhat this side of abject enslavement. I ask only to bare this woman's essence to the world. We must know who she is. Why has she kept herself in secret? She must be a lovely creature to know so much of the whip...
What is bothersome in this passage is not so much the meaning Zeligs attached to Chambers' misrecollections, but the weight. Never does he give the reader a sense of the wildly conjectural nature of his evaluation. Never does he acknowledge that Chambers' errors could derive not from "a magical art of doing and undoing," but from an all-too-earthly had memory. The analyst will of course, contend that people forget and remember by subconscious design, but in specific instances a man's faulty testimony -- unless it fits a really obvious pattern -- is hardly something to be strongly emphasized...
Paul: Don't her breasts look somewhat distorted? ... It looks as if the shots were made on a foggy day. We don't want to mix the reader up. You can't really be sure that this is the same girl...
...general, though, Playboy ads are discreet?no stag movies, no sex manuals. "Playboy takes the reader into a kind of dream world," explains Advertising Director Howard Lederer. "We create a euphoria and we want nothing to spoil it. We don't want a reader to come suddenly on an ad that says he has bad breath. We don't want him to be reminded of the fact, though it may be true, that he is going bald...
...into the alphas and omegas of a giant cultural alphabet soup. The "seamless" and communal thought processes of tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing. Letters led to the "idea," which required structure-beginning, middle, end-and forced the writer or reader out of immediate experience and into an abstracted, objective remove from "group reality." According to McLuhan, the advent of "electrical technology"-radio and records, television and telephones-has changed all that. Man today is returning, through the vacuum tube, to a tribal-type perception, and is no longer tied...