{"id":2861,"date":"2008-05-01T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2008-05-01T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:50:11","slug":"the-secret-sex-lives-of-great-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Secret Lives Of Great Authors&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the new book: Balzac preferred not to ejaculate, fearing that it would sap his creative energy. Said a friend: &quot;Sperm to him meant emission of purest cerebral substance, and therefore filtering, a loss through the member, of a potential act of artistic creation.&quot; Or, as Balzac himself once put it after climaxing during intercourse with many of his lovers: &quot;This morning I have lost my novel!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I got my latest issue of Orthodox Action today and read it <a href=\"http:\/\/yourmoralleader.camstreams.com\/\">live on my cam<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>YourMoralLeader:&nbsp; i can&#8217;t believe emma&#8217;s in the latest issue of penthouse<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; emma&#8217;s has the centerfold with all the staples (not stables)<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; for the articles<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; oy vey<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; gee wizz<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; emma would be a very good penthouse pet<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; luck is reading the parsha hashavua in penthouse<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; she has the eyes to arden any jewish perv<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; the eyes always have it<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; eyes are the mirror of the neshama<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; lukes eyes are soulfull too&nbsp; dontcha think??<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; all that pent up sexuality just waiting to get out<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; the mag is already dog eared<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; it&#8217;s been manhandeled<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; don&#8217;t forget to leave it in shul when you are done ok?<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; breastlover chosid<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:&nbsp; i&#8217;m stealing that<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; it&#8217;s the jewish edition<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; i see no nudes<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; it&#8217;s the kosher penthouse<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; glatt kosher has been supervised by the rabbis<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; glatt kosher penthouse?&nbsp; they checked the girls lungs for blemishes?<br \/>\nguest33:&nbsp; tie me kangaroo down sport tie me kangaroo down<br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; hi berlin<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; girls lungs are checked&nbsp; by the rabbi otherwise she is treif <br \/>\nbipolardragon:&nbsp; i have a friend who lives in you berlin<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; luke i hope you didn&#8217;t throw away in the trash emmas pic in penthouse<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; that would be a travesty and a shanda<br \/>\nMoses:&nbsp; luke, what time are you suntanning today?&nbsp; I need to take a screen shot of that.<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; moral leader????????????????? wat morals do you teach<br \/>\nYourMoralSchvartze:&nbsp; yes leader&#8230;.hold forth on something<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; i dont understand<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; jesus<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; yes&nbsp; oh leader spill your words of wisdom not your seed<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; u look stoned<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; he is a pillar in the community<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; he is a pillar in his hovel<br \/>\nguest46:&nbsp; are you suffering from a long, prolonged, derrangement of the sences in order to obtain the unknown??<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; he&#8217;s not a vicar<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; well wat does he do apart frm sit there<br \/>\nYourMoralSchvartze:&nbsp; LOL we&#8217;ve been asking ourselves taht for a couple of months<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; he sitting looking pretty<br \/>\nYourMoralSchvartze:&nbsp; what the fsck does luke do all day<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; earlier he was &quot;reading&quot; penthouse<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; coz he aint preaching to us &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. ha<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; He works hard and looks handsome<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; he works hard for the money so hard for it honey<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; ru half chineese<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; Nope.. I see perfectly<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; love is blind<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; u must be joking<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; ur telling me lol<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; emma&nbsp; give him a haircut &amp; a shave when you come&#8230;<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; He dosn&#8217;t need it<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; then &amp; only then you can say he looks handsome<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; go ahead &amp; wipe on the teeshirt<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; when I first met him he was clean shaven<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; came and sat down in front of my desk<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; i dont c the point in just sitting there not saying nuffing ffs<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; we are here to entertain him &#8211; the leader<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; that is what he hath commanded to his followers &amp; we must obey orders<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; wipe away<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; sticky fingers<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; go ahead<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; wipe it on that hairy chest of yours<br \/>\nsarah:&nbsp; that sweaty hairy chest yuk<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; He dosn&#8217;t have a hairy chest<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; how do we know this emma?<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; have you run your lawn mover through it ?<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; Havn&#8217;t you seen him change on cam?<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; ah yes you are right<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; &amp; you still want him?<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; chest hair is not your thing<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; yep<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:&nbsp; of course<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:&nbsp; ::)<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:&nbsp; and I want her <br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:&nbsp; in the worst way<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; lol Luke!<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; do you want him more emma as he wipes away on his shirt&#8230;it is such a turn on<br \/>\nEmma:&nbsp; I hope not<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; oi vey is mir<br \/>\nQuixoticLass:&nbsp; You&#8217;re scaring her Luke<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; i am going to donate more money to the emma fund right away&#8230;it is tzedakah well given<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; kenst brechen<br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; in yiddish it means i want to gag<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:&nbsp; Desperately, very much, as in He wanted a new trumpet in the worst way. This usage replaced worst kind. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s] <br \/>\nguest30:&nbsp; not in the biblical sense<br \/>\nYourMoralLeader:&nbsp; http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/in-the-worst-way<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the new book: Balzac preferred not to ejaculate, fearing that it would sap his creative energy. 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