26.4.10


(stills from film: Valerie and her Week of Wonders)

THE NEW PROMISCUITY,

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and the Essentially Contingent,

"Then Sartre shattered Simone in a way she could never have imagined. The couple had never wanted children - it had been part of their creed - yet in 1965 Sartre adopted his 25-year-old Algerian mistress Arlette El Kaim as his child."

As he put it to Beauvoir: "What we have is an essential love; but it is a good idea for us also to experience contingent love affairs" (as) an essential love; but it is a good idea for us also to experience contingent love affairs (as) an essential love; but it is a good idea for us also to experience contingent love affairs (as) an essential love;

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DRAMA-LESS DRAMA &
COMIC TRAGEDY