Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History - Plot & Excerpts
If I have painted Vice in all its gayest colours, if I have decked it with flowers, it has been solely in order to make the worthier, the solemner sacrifice of it to Virtue. —From Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland. Notwithstanding the (insincere) tribute to virtue, even by present-day standards the 1749 book is an extremely graphic, XXX-rated tale of promiscuity. Considered the first pornographic English novel, it has been banned more than almost any other fictional work. HAVING ALREADY IMMERSED myself in several divisive constitutional issues and on the verge of plunging into yet another, I’m ready for a nice noncontroversial diversion. Hence my detour, while driving to Cleveland, off Highway 80/90’s exit 25 into beautiful Beatosu, Ohio. Inside the “Every Day Is Christmas!” Candy Cane Christmas Shoppe in Archbold, I ask a sales clerk where Burlington and Elmira are because Beatosu is supposedly wedged between the two. “It should be right where you’ve marked it,”
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