Venus and Adonis
- ISBN-10
- 1492258717
- ISBN-13
- 9781492258711
- Series
- Venus and Adonis
- Pages
- 108
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-05
- Author
- Publius
Description
The myth of Venus and Adonis is one of the great erotic love stories of world literature. Venus, the goddess of love, falls in love with the handsome young human, Adonis. She plies him with all of her charms but he resists. She kisses him, pushes him onto the grass and climbs on top of him, and makes love to him. And swift at once the grass and him she pressed. Then sweetly smiling, with a raptured mind, On his loved bosom she her head reclined, And thus began; but mindful still of bliss, Sealed the soft accents with a softer kiss. But Adonis says he is too young and that all he is interested in is hunting. Can you imagine a modern man refusing the goddess of love? The love scenes in this myth (that Shakespeare also covered) were as explicit as anything written up to that time.Adonis goes off to hunt. Venus warns him to stay away from dangerous wild animals like wolves and boars that won't care about his beauty. But Adonis hunts a wild boar anyway. He spears the boar, but badly. The boar pulls the spear out. It runs the fleeing Adonis down and gores him. Venus senses the danger and rushes to her lover. She finds Adonis dead. Venus is heartbroken. She sprinkles nectar on Adonis's pooled blood, and magically appears the red anemone, the "wind flower," because its petals scatter in the wind.This Venus and Adonis is the story of Randy Maynard, a "blond Adonis" who takes a job with a big bank in San Francisco in 1978. The story follows Randy's separation from his true love, his seduction by a large corporation and a number of women and includes erotic scenes that are up to today's standards. As in the original, love and death commingle in fifty shades of gray. The recreation of Seventies office life in a cast of acid-etched characters is reminiscent of Mad Men and provides added levels of intrigue and entertainment.
