Show me! Show me more!
Artists, writers, and perverts, perverts, perverts.
To a truly curious mind that wants to get to the bottom of things, everything looks like a door left slightly ajar, something waiting to be explored:
The forbidden is alluring. The wives and concubines of a noble man were not allowed to be visited or even looked at by other men, and so the word “harem” comes from “haram”, the label of the sacred and forbidden.
Art lets us materialize this curiosity. It welcomes us as voyeurs:
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Art as new eyes:
When asked about what inspired the creation of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov said: “A caged baboon, when given a charcoal, the first thing the poor animal sketched was the bars of its own cage. And that’s what my baboon, Humbert Humbert, does [in the book], he’s drawing and shading and erasing and redrawing the bars of his cage… this cage [is his] obsessive and rather frightening love for this girl… It is the pattern of his passion.”
Nabokov flips the mind of a soph…