"I've become quite adept at fending off the loneliness that used to rob me of my feet in my early twenties. The recipe is work, casual sex and overpriced cocktails." Carley Fortune, "Five Summers with You"

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"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton

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"It's easy to kill someone with the slash of a sword. It is hard to be impossible for others to cut down." Yagyu Munenori

Eccentric Mom

It wasn't Jane Austen or a Brontë sister who gave Dyani Silver a taste for a bluestocking existence. Thomas Hardy, a 19th century English writer who eventually only wrote poetry, gives her desires the right emphasis.

Dyani studies literature and works an old-fashioned job in a DIY paradise. She drives a Beetle, she has an eccentric mom who is married for the fourth time. A mom who has to be in love because that's what she gets off on. An unreliable but guaranteed disappointing mom. This mom lives in Austin, Texas. When she appears on screen, you mostly see a mouth.

Dyani keeps herself waiting for the right thing. She constantly bites her lower lip. She wears clothes that match her Beetle. She undoubtedly likes watching 1970s films in the style of "Love Story".

Dyani lives with a person who tests her good nature. Jeanne Tautou plays Dyani. Nana sits next to Branwell in the cinema, dressed in retro chic. She is the vintage-loving intellectual with the clandestine sex appeal in real life. She experiences and enjoys sex on an autonomous level. At the same time, she is attracted to subjects that are associated with the male gaze and imply violations of the rules of the game. She reacts to pornography without inner resistance. If she doesn't like something, it is badly played. Everything is a game and is based on agreements, the conditions of which force those involved to follow the rules. 

Nana never leaves the rooms of her social class. She stays in the social framework of her origins without ever considering it. Every erotic arrondissement is created from money, education, belonging. Nana gets rid of a handful of black lace. Branwell takes the thing like a deposit. He stuffs it into his pocket for the pochette de costume. Tecumseh Lighthouse plays Beauregard Isherwood, who plays the piano in a well-educated, but precariously born family. Dyani, who has just been deflowered by him, touched the piano during the audition and asked the question: "Do you play?" Only to answer herself: "Of course you play." Now she knows what lies behind the game. "You learned it to please the people who were supposed to raise you." Pretty clever. Dyani's analytical quick-wittedness peels Beauregard out of his shell. As a teenager, he was abused by an older woman and interpreted it as initiation. The woman probably also put cigarette butts on his chest. That would explain the scars. The dominatrix gave Beauregard's preferences a direction. His playmates have to sign a confidentiality agreement and a contract that regulates sexual intercourse. Dyani is the 19th contractual partner and in this capacity more awkward than her predecessors. 

Nana does not believe in confidentiality. And yet she does not live under the sword of Damocles of her exposure. Nothing can happen to her if she just does not neglect certain safety measures. What she needs for her pleasure happens in the stories she tells herself. Nana's imagination is not required to stretch much, as Branwell's desires cannot hide in the folds of a bourgeois existence.