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  <title><![CDATA[The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism]]></title>
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  <default_description>In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. &amp;#8220;Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity&amp;#8221; (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.&lt;br&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Octavio Paz]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book reminded me of why I rarely read prose essays for pleasure:  I was rather annoyed by the repetitiveness and meandering wordiness of the writing style.  In this book, Nobel-winning poet Paz discusses three concepts that commonly get mixed-up in the public consciousness:  sex, erotic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5951123">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 27 15:44:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[La llama Doble de Octavio Paz es uno de esos libro obligados, de esos que se leen por placer pero que son necesarios, para mi es parte de mis conceptos pues escribo mucho sobre erotismo es un toque en mi poética, esta interesantisímo y como siempre es uno de esos densos pero deliciosos ensayos de ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75935548">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 13 23:23:49 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of these updates as a way of being held accountable to my own readerly ambitions...so that if I announce to all these people that I'm reading a big ol' book, I might actually finish it. It's like quitting smoking or kicking meth. Anyway. The first five pages of this book were, like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11670844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It guide me through the history of &quot;our share of paradise&quot;, as Paz liked to call love. Sex, eroticism, and love all together: sex the original fire, raises the red flame of eroticism giving place and feeding the tremulous and blue flame of love...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[everyone wanting a deeper historical view and more viewpoints on the subject of love, eroticism, and the difference between those two very fluid ideas, read!!!<br/><br/>Also, read Octavio Paz's poetry.  Now!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant prose in this collection of essays. I will read this again very soon.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent material for a Humanities major, the breadth of which is remarkable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[thus far this book is completely wonderful...]]></body>
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