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Doug Henwood wrote:
[...]
But his most notorious line was his attempt to invoke
the modern aristocrat's great struggle between his
dueling low and high impulses (or what Mr. Franchetti
later called the "Dionysian and Apollonian forces.")
"I'm reading a book and I'm thinking about a pussy,
but I find when I get the pussy, I'm thinking about
the book," he said.
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> Mr. Franchetti wasn't surprised by some of the
reactions to his film debut-"I knew that it was going
to be scandalous!"-and waved any outrage off as little
more than bourgeois conventionalism. "I mean, it's a
Nietzschean theory-it's nothing that I've invented,"
he said of his pussy/book formulation.