Teaser Tuesday (September 29)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

That’s my choice of the day: images

Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous ‘embarkation’ and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion. More creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage.”

( ~ The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley,1952, Kindle edition.)

[Note: This is a non-fiction, highly accurate, historical novel, portraying the amazing and complex story of demoniac possession, and political intrigue, in a French XVII century provincial town. I have always loved witchcraft and, in this case as in others, reality is stranger than fiction. Huxley at his best.]

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8 responses to “Teaser Tuesday (September 29)”

  1. Beth F Avatar

    Wow. I’ve never heard of this book but it does sound fascinating.

    1. Stephen P. BIanchini Avatar
      Stephen P. BIanchini

      It definitively is!

  2. proxyfish Avatar

    What an excellent choice! My Teaser

    1. Stephen P. BIanchini Avatar
      Stephen P. BIanchini

      Thanks – going to check it out!

  3. Wendy Lohr Avatar

    This does sound really intriguing! And you’re right… truth can often times be much stranger and more fascinating that fiction!

    Here’s my Teaser from Lord Loss!

    Wendy

    1. Stephen P. BIanchini Avatar
      Stephen P. BIanchini

      Thanks Wendy – it is, indeed – and this case also beautifully written.

  4. Stephen P. BIanchini Avatar
    Stephen P. BIanchini

    Huxley is a certainty, no matter if he writes about fiction or history…