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How to Fathom the Enigmatic Mysteries of Woman: An Ancient Map of a ‘Dark Continent’

Stuart — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:01:58 +0000

Dear Reader, Do you yearn, or otherwise aspire, to understand women … and thus fathom their oft enigmatic mysteries? Do you nobly covet, or otherwise crave, more unassuming confidence, choice, and options with the ladies? And, do you gallantly long to more candidly love, and be loved by, the fair? A ‘dark continent’ Well, the...

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Extend Your Seductive Vocabulary: 20 Old-fashioned Amorous Terms to Enhance Your Powers of Enchantment

Stuart — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:21:07 +0000

Dear Reader, How would you like to extend your seductive vocabulary … and expand your amorous diction? A rich seductive vocabulary and diverse amorous diction can not only extend your conceptual scope (and thus broaden, and deepen, your understanding) but also magnify, or otherwise enhance, your powers of enchantment. Anyway, in my last post, I...

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Reasons to Court the Graces … and How to Invoke Their Amorous Aid

Stuart — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:06:28 +0000

Dear Reader, Most of my favourite books have been rather old ones. They’re books that have stood the test of time and endured. Or, ones that are, otherwise, inspired by, more or less, timeless truths. These are the books then I’ve found the most transcendently inspiring, edifying, or otherwise helpful to my moral (i.e. imaginative,...

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The Amorous Art of ‘Young Adam’, Pt. II: Less Is More

Stuart — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:20:53 +0000

Dear Reader, In my last post, I noted the deftly subtle seductions of the errant young drifter and aspirant author Joe Taylor … in the poignant and ingeniously-produced film Young Adam. And, as I said then, this film portrays, amongst other things, three seductions that are, more or less, considerably instructive. The amorous object lessons...

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The Amorous Art of ‘Young Adam’, Pt. I: Stealth Seduction

Stuart — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 23:43:41 +0000

Dear Reader, A few months ago now, I watched a rather haunting and, I hasten to add, finely-crafted film that also yields some telling object lessons in SEDUCTION. It’s called Young Adam … and stars Ewen McGregor as the errant young drifter and aspirant author Joe Taylor. So, yes, he’s not called Adam. The name...

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The Cupid’s School Classic Love Seduction Bulletin, Issue II

Stuart — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:24:41 +0000

In this issue … Seduction tips of a ‘philandering adventurer’ Extraordinary out-of-favour poetry On woman’s prodigious carnal powers Dear Reader, Yes, it’s been a while since I published the previous, and first, issue of The Cupid’s School Classic Love Seduction Bulletin. In the meantime, though, I’ve equipped you with a potent, and more or less comprehensive,...

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A Literary Guide to Life: On the Life-Giving Power of Literature

Stuart — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:28:38 +0000

He was in fact a poet without words; the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing-waters were dammed back into his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined. – George MacDonald, ‘The Tale of Cosmo’¹ in ‘Phantastes: A Fairie Romance’ The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing...

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A Literary Guide to Life: On the Meaning and Nature of Great Literature

Stuart — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:33:22 +0000

“What a strange thing a mirror is! and what a wondrous affinity exists between it and a man’s imagination! For this room of mine, as I behold it in the glass, is the same, and yet not the same. It is not the mere representation of the room I live in, but it looks just...

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A Literary Guide to Life: The Art of Self-Cultivation through Transcendent Literary Culture

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:35:13 +0000

She burst into tears, and, kneeling before him in her turn, said — “Cosmo, if thou lovest me, set me free, even from thyself: break the mirror.” “And shall I see thyself instead?” “That I cannot tell, I will not deceive thee; we may never meet again.” A fierce struggle arose in Cosmo’s bosom. Now...

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The Fantastic Imagination by George MacDonald

Stuart — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 17:20:14 +0000

As I recently noted in response to a blog post entitled The Birth of Modern Fantastic Literature – And the “King of the Fairies”, George MacDonald’s “extraordinary imagination and sensibility, together with the ideas I found in his fantastical works, once opened up whole new words of timeless wonder to me … and feelings unfelt before –...

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