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Arousing Courage
Author: Iphigenia-at-Aulis
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(Added on May 18, 2002)
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Jenny is introduced to the sting of the whip in a Kafkaesque festival of flagellation. |
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| Reviewer:
e.e. norcod
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Dec 18, 2003 |
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For reasons I cannot now recall, I failed to review this story when I first read it back in May. It is a very enjoyable story and the other reviewers have nicely stated why. Words like 'surreal, light and dream-like' come to mind which contrast strongly with the underlying eroticism. This is the complete opposite to the way that lex luddite writes but in this case the opposite is equally pleasing. If you like this story try the more recent story by the same author "Capture the Flag" where the all over tone is just slightly darker and the eroticism is much more explicit. (9/10)
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- Replied by:
iphigenia
(Edit) (Dec 30, 2003)
- As usual your analysis is insightful. Yes, Lex Ludite's style, as exemplified by his delightful summer camp story, seems to fall into a different realm from mine. The only way I could imagine attempting that style, so wonderfully over the top, is if one of my guy characters told a wild story within the story.
But it's worth noting that your own style, as in your potent story about Candy, seems to fall into a different realm from either Lex's or mine. Like Lex, you are physically explicit, but unlike Lex, your slow and serious exposition places maximum emphasis on the pain - to the extreme.
Anyway, thanks for your thoughtful review.
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| Reviewer:
elusiveroseii
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Dec 18, 2003 |
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not too hardcore, but dreamlike in quality and believable ... (8/10)
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- Replied by:
iphigenia
(Edit) (Dec 20, 2003)
- Thanks for the review. None of my stories are hardcore, and this one, my first, is the least explicit. The problem is that it is written in the first person, and the heroine Jenny is not oriented toward explicit sexual descriptions.
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| Reviewer:
Flame_Spirit10
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May 11, 2003 |
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I agree with Taisho. The story had such a surrealistic feeling that just made it that much better. Everything was so normal, but not really. Like, as the reader, it wasn't right, and even to Jenny, things weren't right, but she just sort of accepted this world. Please, write on. (9/10)
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- Replied by:
iphigenia
(Edit) (Dec 20, 2003)
- This was my first piece of fiction ever, bringing into words a deep-seated fantasy of mine. The experience of writing it was very intense, far more than for any subsequent story. I felt as though I was the one who had been singled out to receive the punishment.
I do not know how it got that surreal or dreamlike quality that several reviewers noted. My subsequent stories don't have that feel. I'm not sure how to recapture it. Wish I could.
Anyway thanks for commenting. The way you describe it is very much the way I view it.
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| Reviewer:
Taisho
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Dec 16, 2002 |
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Excellent story with a nice surreal quality. Felt like the sort of thing that might happen in a Twin Peaks school... (9/10)
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- Replied by:
iphigenia
(Edit) (Dec 20, 2003)
- Thanks much for reviewing my story. Sorry I did not reply earlier.
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| Reviewer:
Tarano
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Dec 8, 2002 |
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Schoolgirl has to find the right instrument for a punishment whipping. The boys enjoy helping her.. Nice. (8/10)
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- Replied by:
iphigenia
(Edit) (Dec 20, 2003)
- A belated thank you for reviewing my story. When you reviewed this last year, either I had lost my password or didn't have password and couldn't reply.
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