Abigail Mandeville Whore ❤️

About Chicago

Oi, but the smell! Fuckin’ hell, some nights it’s rank – cheap perfume and despair, yeh? “Stupid, fat hobbit!” – me nose agrees! Still, respect, y’know? They’re out there, hustlin’, while we’re all cozy. Reckon Jesse’d tip his hat to ‘em – outlaws, all o’ us, in a way. Whores, pimps, me – all dodgin’ the law, eh!

A modest defence of public stews; or, An essay upon whoring as it is n ...

between Mandeville's use of the whore dialogue form and his portrait of a "feminist" spinster. The prototypical whore dialogue was Pietro Aretino's.

I’ve been here a good while now, and every corner shouts its own story. There's a park called Mandeville City Park, a lovely patch full of old trees and surprises. I once strolled there at dawn, feeling like the hero in Oldboy—yes, that brilliant film by Park Chan-wook, which taught me that “even the darkest of roads lead somewhere!” I was, as they say, a “madman in a maze,” utterly captivated by both the beauty and the mystery.

Open house planned on Mandeville master plan rewrite