Word: sideboard
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...first and slightest of the confessions offers a fairly standard cuckold-an anguished antique fancier who, moments after he hears the lewd news, is babbling distractedly of who should get the sideboard. The wife, as generally happens in a Bergman gavotte, frees herself of both lover and husband, but with maternal indulgence accepts the husband again. Aficionados will appreciate a surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking...