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Frank Harris · 1922
A candid autobiographical memoir in which Harris recounts his life experiences with frank discussion of sexuality, love, and personal philosophy, written in deliberate opposition to Victorian prudishness and in the tradition of French literary freedom.
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Desire is the honest gospel Harris sets against Victorian hypocrisy, recounting how sex, ambition, and self-invention shaped a restless life.
desire
Girls love kissing… she guided my prick into her cunt (God it was wonderful!) and now I go with her every night.
MLL-RC-021My wild excitement made me shiver… I began to use my cock as a finger, caressing her with it.
MLL-RC-081religion-and-sex
The silly sex-morality of Paul has brought discredit upon the whole Gospel. Paul was impotent, boasted he had no sexual desires.
MLL-RC-007The creed we professed and the creed we practised were poles apart. Never was there such confusion in man's thought about conduct.
MLL-RC-006ambition-and-status
I have always fought for the Holy Spirit of Truth and have been, as Heine said, a brave soldier in the wars of liberation.
MLL-RC-002It was the boys of the Lower School who were coldest to me—a bitter foretaste of what was to happen to me again and again all through my life.
MLL-RC-037Illuminates
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