LovelyMay
Stories
93
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1,516
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6.7 M
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Reading
23 d, 5 h
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Press Comments on the Play surrounded the debut of Damaged Goods with a striking mix of surprise and respect, especially following its American premiere at the Fulton Theater in 1913. The audience, many of whom may have expected mere drama, were instead presented with an urgent social mirror, confronting themes often left unspoken in polite society. The staging, sharp and fearless, removed any romantic gloss and delivered facts, questions, and human struggle in equal measure. What stunned even seasoned…-
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Chapter I begins with George Dupont leaving a house just before sunrise, his steps slowed not by fatigue but by the weight of guilt that clings to his conscience. Though engaged to Henriette, a woman admired for her virtue and grace, George carries the secret of a recent betrayal—an encounter that now threatens to dismantle the foundation of their relationship. The stillness of the Paris morning offers no comfort; instead, it amplifies the noise of regret in his mind. His past with Lizette, a girl of…
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Chapter II opens with George Dupont entering the doctor's office not just as a patient, but as a young man caught in the storm of guilt, secrecy, and anxiety. The heavy air of the consultation room mirrors his state of mind as he faces what he fears most—a confirmation of a venereal disease. As he haltingly speaks, his words attempt to justify his caution, noting that unlike others, he had been relatively restrained. But the physician does not entertain comparisons. He explains that even a single…
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Chapter III opens with George Dupont at a crossroads, burdened by a diagnosis that threatens not only his health but his future with Henriette. Rather than confronting the truth with courage, he seeks an easier route, one that promises discretion and speed. A second doctor, whose promises are appealing but ethically questionable, offers George false hope wrapped in smooth assurances. Encouraged by this supposed remedy, George becomes more determined to hide his illness from everyone he holds dear. In his…
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Chapter V of Damaged Goods begins in the heart of emotional chaos. Henriette’s devastation after discovering the truth about George’s condition plunges the household into silence and dread. She isolates herself with their child, refusing comfort, consumed by the horror of betrayal and the fear of what their future holds. Her response isn’t melodrama—it’s a natural outcry from someone blindsided by a truth too terrible to ignore. The idea of returning to her father is more than escape; it’s a…
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Chapter VI opens with George immersed in a cloud of isolation, where the absence of Henriette and their child transforms his world into one of hollow routines and emotional numbness. Everything he once enjoyed now feels void of meaning, as if the essence of life had quietly slipped away. The judgment he anticipates from his friends becomes too much to bear, pushing him further into solitude. Even work, which once provided purpose, has become an exhausting façade. The gravity of his internal suffering is…
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"To Rhodocleia – On Her Melancholy Singing" brings forth a sorrow-drenched vision of a woman frozen in the memory of ancient grief. Within the first notes of her mournful voice, the past stirs—an echo not just of her own pain but of a lost civilization’s quiet dirge. The air around her feels weighted by the unspoken, and her presence becomes an emblem of mourning itself. She does not simply sing of sadness; she embodies the dusk between joy and resignation. The music she creates is not for the living…-
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The Limit of Lands opens with a stillness not born from peace but from distance—the kind that exists between the living and the realms that stretch beyond. Here, the earth does not speak in the voices of birds or the movement of green branches; instead, it whispers through wind over dry grass and through the shadows of stone. The sea marks the furthest edge of what the world allows, lapping gently at the shore as though it too knows this is a place where boundaries blur. No temples remain—only ruins,…
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The Shade of Helen opens not with the clang of armor or the shouts of battle, but with a voice drawn from memory and myth—a presence caught between time and truth. From the soft folds of a world untouched by mortal desire, Helen’s shade emerges not as a figure of conquest but of quiet sorrow. She does not ask to be remembered by glory or theft, but by the place where her spirit once walked under rainlight and starlit leaves. That world, marked by stillness and grace, seems more real to her than the…
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Pontus De Tyard, 1570 introduces a philosophical meditation that blends poetic sensitivity with emotional clarity, drawing readers into a realm where love, illusion, and grief dance together in delicate tension. It opens with a portrait of a woman whose life, untouched by love, becomes hollow—a succession of routine days with no trace of joy or transformation. Her solitude is not merely loneliness but a condition of existence deprived of beauty, where even wisdom becomes a dull, joyless inheritance. The…
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