MUSE MONDAY
Dreams and sensuality from my guest, David Russell all the way from the UK!
Many a dream can be realised with a little
forethought. The characters in this quartet of stories are intelligent,
sensitive and literary. They are also supremely voyeuristic and open-minded.
Their intelligence is counterbalanced by inhibitions, which they can only lose
by premeditated seduction scenarios, which relate intimately to their
professional, creative and cultural lives. The great effort each couple puts
into arranging a scenario seems to enhance the quality of the experience. A
great source of inspiration for this and other works has been the novel The Girl Beneath the Lion by André
Pieyre de Mandiargues.
Seductive Semaphore: Fashion
Designer Bethesda and journalist Hector live opposite each other, with windows
facing. They make initial contact through visible, provocative gestures. Soon
afterwards, they get direct contact when Hector assists Bethesda with her
folio. She invites him round to model for some of her fashion creations, and
proceeds to seduce him. The seduction continues with a ritual visit to a sports
centre, and then to a beach. They leave it open as to whether their
relationship could ever become long-term.
The Heroine and the Author:
Dreamer Hecate discovers she has a terminal illness. She wants to make the most
of the time she has left by being celebrated in literature as a charismatic,
legendary figure. She meets Ferdinand, a ghost writer, who is happy to
undertake this massive project with her. In the process, She gets an idea of
his physique through jogging and the fitness centre. Then there is a seduction scene
inspired by the literary models of Sappho and Donne. Being ‘open-minded’, they
make a pact for each one to go and have a sexual adventure – his hetero, hers
lesbian. Their relationship is enhanced by this extra dimension.
Dreamtime Sensuality: Romona,
highly literary and highly inhibited, goes to an exotic island location. She
deeply desires a passionate encounter. At the Pension where she stays, she
meets Stefano, who fulfils her requirements exactly. The proprietress of the
Pension picks up on Romona’s shyness, and gives her reassurance, including some
practice in the art of kissing. Romona orchestrates an elaborate beach
seduction scenario, and they are both fulfilled. They never meet again, but
their exchange of emails and text messages goes on indefinitely.
Dancing with Danger: Verona
is a Scriptwriter and Gareth an archaeologist. They both have ‘retreats’ near
the coast, and discover their common interests. Verona contrives a
half-seduction on a deserted beach, wearing 18th century retro gear
– related to their common interests. After some further encounters, they give
each other a ‘dare’ to go and have a really risky encounter with someone really
dodgy. Gareth finds a young woman on the run. Verona has a rapturous encounter
with someone who gets hauled in by the police, suspected of terrorism. She uses
her charm on the interrogating police officer to extricate herself. So Verona
and Gareth both meet up again, to tell their respective tales.
Excerpt:
Hecate
read some verses of Sappho, which she felt totally appropriate to his slender
grace, so nearly androgynous. She quoted a phrase
demanding his fixed, concentrated stare into her eyes. The eye contact was
clinched Hecate’s introduction was a
quote from her.
Ferdinand responded to the
prompt; he knew what he had to do—gradually, at intervals, he removed his
garments one by one as she breathily read the hypnotic, seductive phrases.
His
garments came off with ease and grace, he obviously had some long-repressed
desire to do this. At last, he stood before her, beautiful, naked, and slender.
Somehow, his spirit prevailed over his earlier reticence, he shed his shyness
with his clothing. Since she saw him in trunks, Hecate anticipated this moment
with such relish. If the pool had been empty when they were there, she would
have taken them off there, or in the shower. Perhaps something could happen, or
even be premeditated in the future, on a deserted beach, secluded amid the
dunes.
She
handed him a volume of the collected poems of John Donne. “Now, I think you
know which one I want you to read me. Hmm…while we’ve been working together, I
bet you’ve had some reveries of me undressing, you undressing me.”
“I
have to admit that is so and I know which poem you mean, it’s Elegy Nineteen—To
His Mistress Going to Bed.
“We
really are on the same wavelength darling. I had learned of that poem as a
young girl, with a desperate desire one day to enact it. Every word of it
struck home as I disrobed alone, for years I yearned for that lovely partner to
give me those instructions live.”
Ferdinand
beamed, then quoted from near the end of the poem referring to the poet’s
nakedness at the beginning of the action. Then he proceeded to read, with his
lovely, hypnotic voice.
He really made Hecate’s girdle feel like
Saturn’s rings As she undid her sash and cast it down, she felt her abdomen was
bathed in heavenly light, visible only to spiritual eyes.
The request to remove her ‘breastplate’ gave
her an etheric shudder. Taking off the brooch at the top of her dress felt like
casting away a shield, affirming that strife and combat had been replaced by
love.
In response to the exhortation to unlace, she
felt deliciously nervous as her fingers twitched on her zips and buttons.
As the gown went off following the next
command, Hecate felt she had emerged from a perennial cocoon, that she was the
sun liberated from the constricting veils of night.
As for a ‘coronet’, Hecate was only wearing a
slide, but removing it certainly helped her locks flow freely.
It was great to feel liberated from footwear;
earlier on her high heels had felt so sexy. But now her stockinged feet tingled
with electric desire.
With her underwear, admittedly she found
nylon, calico and silk sexier than linen, but the word, so sensually uttered,
really relevant. (from The Heroine and
the Author – Story 2)
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Dreamtime Sensuality – a book by David Russell
Author Bio: b.
1940. Resident in the UK. Writer of poetry, literary criticism, speculative
fiction and romance. Main poetry collection Prickling
Counterpoints (1998); poems published in online International Times. Main speculative works High Wired On (2002); Rock
Bottom (2005). Translation of Spanish epic La Araucana, Amazon 2013. Romances: Self’s Blossom; Explorations;
Further Explorations; Therapy Rapture; Darlene, An Ecstatic Rendezvous (all pub Extasy (Devine Destinies).
Singer-songwriter/guitarist. Main CD albums Bacteria
Shrapnel and Kaleidoscope
Concentrate. Many tracks on You Tube, under ‘Dave Russell’
Author Links: www.davidrussell-author.blogspot.co.uk
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