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This Week in Lincolnville: This is Spring

It may have been the only kind of normal thing to happen this whacky winter of 2023-24. An early spring snow that turned into an ice storm, coating the trees and roads and cars with a slick glaze of ice. The power was out for most of the town by...

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On This Gay Day: Author Alan Hollinghurst was born

Author Alan Hollinghurst celebrates hi birthday today. The author won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for his novel In The Line of Beauty 

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'A certain pleasant darkness': what makes a good fictional sex scene? | Books

The novelist Niamh Campbell on why describing intimacy is so difficult and how creative writing about sexuality is changing. Plus, she picks 10 of her favourite examples

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The most romantic love scenes always happen in the garden


Ellen (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Newland (Daniel Day-Lewis) in The Age of Innocence
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One fine day, though history does not record how fine, William Blake’s friend and patron, Thomas Butts, came to call on the poet and his wife Catherine in Lambeth.
He was surprised to find the couple naked in the garden, reading to one another from Paradise Lost. “Come in!” cried Blake, “it’s only Adam and Eve you know!” before putting the kettle, and presumably his trousers, on.
Blake’s own Garden of Love was a ­dismal place, wrecked by religion (“And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds/ And binding with briars, my joys & desires”). But he understood a great truth about gardens, which is that, as well as affording various delights to the senses, they are a realm of enchantment, allegory and outright fantasy.

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