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re: You read that from me

Posted by: Circlevet 07:13 pm EST 01/19/15
In reply to: re: You read that from me - enoch10 04:56 pm EST 01/19/15

Whatever the service Gigi is being trained to do was not central to my post that's a semantics argument. Colette wrote a wonderful story about a young girl who when faced with the prospect of a life as a courtesan (a hooker who can choose a good cigar) makes a different choice and changes her own fate which in my mind is an incredibly empowering statement especially when you consider the time in which she lived (why we need to fix this story I don't understand). Betsy on the other hand in Ben Brantley's new favorite show accepts the conditions of the ridiculous plot of Honeymoon in Vegas and with her Vassar education heads off to Hawaii with a gangster for the weekend cause her idiot fiancé lost her in a card game. You've come a long way baby! And Madame Armfeldt was a tramp who traded oral sex for figs, ask anyone.


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re: You read that from me

Posted by: enoch10 03:39 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: You read that from me - Circlevet 07:13 pm EST 01/19/15

not understanding the difference between a courtesan and a prostitute is more than a semantic argument. it is a case of not knowing what you're talking about.


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re: You read that from me

Posted by: Circlevet 07:59 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: You read that from me - enoch10 03:39 pm EST 01/20/15

Websters dictionary: Courtesan "noun" a prostitute, especially one with wealthy or upper-class clients. I guess I know what I'm talking about after all.


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re: You read that from me

Posted by: AlanScott 11:40 pm EST 01/19/15
In reply to: re: You read that from me - Circlevet 07:13 pm EST 01/19/15

I didn't much like Honeymoon in Vegas, but that was not my understanding of exactly what happened. Jack lost a lot of money in a poker game. He was told that the debt (for the nonpayment of which he might otherwise be seriously hurt) would be forgiven if Betsy would agree to spend the weekend with Tommy.

Betsy does not have to say yes. Yes, she would probably feel awful if she didn't and Tommy followed through on his threat to Jack, but she does not have to. Jack did not put her up as a bet in a card game. If I hadn't seen the show, I would think that from your description.


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