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Famous Whores in Literature Anonymous Sat Mar 2 01:48:24 2019 No.12688512 [Reply] [Original]

A) Who are the most famous prostitutes in literature? Obviously Sonya in Crime & Punishment, but who else?

B) I also noticed a reoccurring trope in many of my favorite books. In....

1. John Fante's Ask The Dust
2. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Novella by Gabriel García Márquez
3. The Catcher In The Rye

And I know there's more (maybe even Crime & Punishment), I just can't think of it off the top of my head. (Hopefully someone can help me here.) But in all of these books the main character hired a prostitute and then didn't sleep with her.

Why? What does this signify? What is the symbolism in that? What does it mean? Why is it in so many great books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 01:53:20 2019 No.12688526 It shows the protagonist is isolated and debased but can be redeemed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 01:57:45 2019 No.12688535 Nora from the book "the power of the dog" by Don Winslow. I'd marry her in a heartbeat

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 02:02:20 2019 No.12688549 >>12688512 All women are queens

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 02:04:26 2019 No.12688554 >>12688512 Don't you dare call Sonya a whore.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 02:08:52 2019 No.12688574 File: 97 KB, 671x673, 9A421486-63F8-4D04-9E57-AC91768444BE.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12688554 >tfw no sonechka gf

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 02:23:02 2019 No.12688629 Cathy from East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 02:25:13 2019 No.12688638 >>12688512 There are the two whores Don Quixote meets early in his adventure, but I'm not even sure if they have names

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 03:31:02 2019 No.12688785 Odette de Crecy

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 03:32:57 2019 No.12688790 nana

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 03:38:50 2019 No.12688802 Boule de Suif is the greatest whore story

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 06:20:21 2019 No.12689103 >>12688512 Josephine Mutzenbacher Lady of the Camellias Belle de Jour

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 06:31:17 2019 No.12689126 >famous >whores The whore has no face.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 06:33:04 2019 No.12689127 Madame Edwarda

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 07:04:42 2019 No.12689181 >>12688512 Procopius's shitpost on empress Theodora

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 07:07:46 2019 No.12689184 File: 116 KB, 607x1080, s39sL1zOL6Y.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12688512 the magus

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 07:13:21 2019 No.12689201 File: 29 KB, 634x426, 034576E50000044D-5735005-image-a-29_1526459541320.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no Nancy mommygf

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 07:55:52 2019 No.12689307 >>12688512 Nana in Zola's Nana Esther van Gobseck in Balzac's Spledours and Miseries..

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 08:22:30 2019 No.12689373 >>12688549 >All women are queens. You sure about that, hoss?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 08:26:20 2019 No.12689378 >>12689307 Ha ha, its true, i think Nana got the crown here

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 08:29:42 2019 No.12689383 >not including Madame Bovary

Anonymous Sat Mar 2 08:48:50 2019 No.12689435
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>>12689184
I remember a time that whenever I saw a pic like this I had to whip my dick out and beat the meat. After a few years of 4chan and reading the classics, all I feel is moral repulsion and overall disgust. I think I'm finally protected from the evil powers of female seduction, these harpies hold no power over me now. YES.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 08:50:14 2019 No.12689440 >>12689184 is that demi lovato?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:13:22 2019 No.12689502 Maria Magdalene

Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:22:41 2019 No.12689530

>>12688549
Are all men monarchs as well?
If not, then you are saying that woman are more valuable/important/etc. by default, which is clearly sexist.
However, if so, why even have a gender limit in your assertion at all? Why not say that all people should be treated with more dignity than to be called a whore?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:34:39 2019 No.12689565 >>12688554 Accept the fact anon. She sucky sucky to make a bucky bucky.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:35:05 2019 No.12689566 >>12689530 Imagine getting baited this easily

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:37:16 2019 No.12689574 >>12688549 If she breathes, she’s a thOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:40:31 2019 No.12689590 >>12689530 Woman are more valuable than males. I mean i literally would let the entire Soviet army rape your male ass just to resque a 12 years old virgin female

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:41:45 2019 No.12689595 >>12689502 This. >>12688512 The sacred/temple whore Shamhat in Gilgamesh is a very important figure as well for what she symbolizes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 09:42:38 2019 No.12689600 >>12689590 Then you are a bigot. Good day.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 11:56:32 2019 No.12690115 >>12689435 Good job anon. SIG

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 11:57:39 2019 No.12690122 >>12689184 That’s a tranny

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 11:57:49 2019 No.12690123 Helen of Troy of course

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 12:02:51 2019 No.12690140 >>12688512 Odette from In Search of Lost Time

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 12:20:35 2019 No.12690241 Last Exit to Brooklyn Whores for Gloria Bad Behavior Cities of the Plain

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 12:29:10 2019 No.12690288 >>12688574 > tfw no prostitute with a heart of gold gf

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 12:33:55 2019 No.12690311 >>12688512 can u pls not post such images

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 12:39:50 2019 No.12690346 THIS IMAGE IS AGAINST THE FUCKING RULES. I DONT WANT TO SEE THIS. THIS BELONGS ON A PORN SITE. NOT A BLUE BOARD.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 12:41:41 2019 No.12690357 File: 232 KB, 626x735, 9E3CF971-EF47-4E03-BEEE-6456FF13AE6F.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12689373 >>12689530 Obviously women are more valuable. Hence more mtf than ftm.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 13:00:13 2019 No.12690437 Anything written by Bolano has prostitutes >>12689383 She is not a whore, just vapid and delusional

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 16:41:31 2019 No.12691598 >>12688512 Franz Biberkopf's girlfriend, what's she called again? Sweetest whore ever, I wish I could get a gf like her. True angel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 16:44:45 2019 No.12691614 >>12690437 >bovary not a whore the absolute vapidity of this delusion

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 16:45:53 2019 No.12691620 >>12691598 Mietze!

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 17:47:31 2019 No.12691886 >>12689435 no, you're just jerkin off to bbc and trannies now

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 17:51:49 2019 No.12691911 >>12688512 kitty and anna in anna karenina fuck em both

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 18:04:25 2019 No.12691980 Surprised no one mentioned Fantine. Is Les Miserables taboo here?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 21:47:31 2019 No.12693132 Sonya is truly a good girl, but I'm so fucked up that i could never be with an ex prostitution that. You?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 2 22:03:01 2019 No.12693216 >>12693132 Sonya turned my boi into a fucking normie Damn whores

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 00:12:43 2019 No.12693772 >>12689595 absolutely archetypal

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 00:21:45 2019 No.12693811 >>12693772 Ancient stories are, almost by definition.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 01:17:26 2019 No.12693979 >>12688549 All women are queans

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 01:20:38 2019 No.12693989 >>12688512 Stephen King

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 01:48:09 2019 No.12694084 >>12688629 seconded

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 09:36:21 2019 No.12695503 >>12689595 Doesn't she symbolize giving up nature and wild ways or something for the wild man and acceptance of society?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 09:54:12 2019 No.12695561 File: 51 KB, 500x574, david-michelangelo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12688512 54 posts, not a single Šamḫat. C'mon /lit/....

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 09:57:26 2019 No.12695576 >>12693132 >but anon the past is past and you seem like an intellectual person to know this

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 10:06:15 2019 No.12695617 >>12695561 ctrlffag

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 10:09:54 2019 No.12695629 File: 120 KB, 554x400, 7b1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12693132 if the pussy game tight I ain't complainin'

Anonymous Sun Mar 3 10:12:29 2019 No.12695641

>>12695503
Yes, I'd say she contains his wildness, and transforms it. Just as the vagina contains the penis and transforms the seed into new life. The creation of life implies responsibility and structure to support it, ultimately giving rise to civilization.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 3 10:34:27 2019 No.12695755 Lily in The Magus

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