{"id":4090,"date":"2014-12-07T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/?page_id=4090"},"modified":"2014-12-07T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T13:20:33","slug":"michael-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/archive\/most-recent-issue-glossen-392014\/michael-blumenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atelier Rheingold<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Berlin, January, 2000<\/p>\n<p>Here is the room in which,<br \/>\nfor a mere 200 Deutschmarks and a smile,<br \/>\nyou can, in a plastic or a rubber suit, be tied<br \/>\nto the violent cage, and be beaten<br \/>\nor kicked, stepped-on, role-played<br \/>\ninto oblivion, where everything<br \/>\nthat can never be yours at home<br \/>\ncan finally be yours, at least<br \/>\nfor an hour, in which you can be<br \/>\na Salvador Dali in red tights<br \/>\nor a Dracula in black, a Count<br \/>\nof Monte Cristo riding a wild horse<br \/>\n(named Eszter or Monica, as you wish),<br \/>\nor even, once again, the Lone Ranger<br \/>\nin his sweet black mask, you can be<br \/>\na beaten bundle of whimpering flesh,<br \/>\na master, a slave, a circus of needs<br \/>\nwhich, for a price, some sweet young girl<br \/>\nwill try to satisfy, sending you home<br \/>\nto your ordinary life again, a little<br \/>\nless needy, a little less in love.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the room\u2014<br \/>\n\u201cthe clinic,\u201d as they say,<br \/>\nin which you can play \u201cDoctor\u201d<br \/>\nyet again, this time with a paid nurse<br \/>\ndressed in tights, or simply lie back<br \/>\nand let yourself be probed and penetrated<br \/>\nas you were as a child, with tools<br \/>\nand utensils too sterile to be true,<br \/>\nbeneath loving fingers hired for a song<br \/>\nand mirrors of all kind in which<br \/>\n\uf06e\tAtelier Rheingold\t\t\t\t\t\t\t               2<\/p>\n<p>to view yourself, relishing a pain<br \/>\nthat hurts so good, as if it were<br \/>\nyour lifelong destiny made new again.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the room,<br \/>\nthe simplest one of all,<br \/>\nresembling most of all<br \/>\nthe analyst\u2019s domain<br \/>\n(but for two long mirrors<br \/>\nslanted on the wall, a single dildo,<br \/>\nand these ropes of different shades),<br \/>\nwith its rubber bed and glass of juice,<br \/>\na good deal less expensive than the rest,<br \/>\ninto which the merely miserable descend,<br \/>\nand where the able-bodied Paula comes,<br \/>\nbringing a relief both palpable and kind<br \/>\nfrom all the disappointments life can bring,<br \/>\nhere in the well-presented Atelier Rheingold,<br \/>\nfor which you exit once again<br \/>\nonto the undivided streets, a world<br \/>\nmade whole again for just a fee,<br \/>\na kindly universe where there\u2019s a cure<br \/>\nfor every unlived fantasy a life provides,<br \/>\nchargeable to EuroCard, American Express,<br \/>\nwith an e-mail address all its own,<br \/>\njust seconds  from the U-Bahn each one takes<br \/>\nto get, in his own way, home again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atelier Rheingold Berlin, January, 2000 Here is the room in which, for a mere 200 Deutschmarks and a smile, you can, in a plastic or a rubber suit, be tied to the violent cage, and be beaten or kicked, stepped-on, role-played into oblivion, where everything that can never be yours at home can finally be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"parent":3907,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4090","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4090\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}