HOW TO BE TORRID

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What’s on today: A post inspired by a Writers’ Island prompt. Have you had a go yet? How to be Torrid in fiction, poetry and fact.
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THE SEARCHER

It was a long road that seemed to have no end. I’d searched for her for so many years. When I first saw her my thoughts were torrid indeed. She was sensual, she was eroticism personified – she was perfection.
How do you live with such passion within? How does normal life compete with such a vision, with such thoughts?

Of course, I dated other girls.

I even tried to fall in love. But none could come close to the idealized image that was now within me.
I hid the image away. I tried to cast it from my mind, but everywhere I just saw imperfection – imperfection in life, and even in my thoughts. It was as if I only lived half a life, and to deviate from my torrid quest was a sin.
In the end I realized that my only mission in life was to adore her. So once more I displayed the poster and knelt by her image. And at last I understood that true passion was in worship.

© Anthony North, March 2008

I WANT IT

I want it, I need it, I must have it now!
To my desires, I must bow;
to crave, to demand, can seem so horrid,
descending to naught but the torrid;
But times do come when you must give in,
even though it may be a sin;
To have such passion makes my heart ache,
but finally I grasp out
and snatch
that damned cream cake!

(c) Anthony North, March 2008

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On getting Torrid through the ages

To be torrid is to be passionate, and the media has provided some perfect examples of what is, and is not, torrid over the years. And of course, it is usually to do with – you’ve guessed it – sex.
Today, sex is everywhere. You can hardly go outside in the west without it being displayed. Sex is easy to get – mainly because, like most things, it is seen as a consumer product. But is this passion? Is it torrid?
People who indulge in casual sex the most see it as nothing special – hardly any passion there. Indeed, language is similar to the raunchy 18th century English novel, such as Fanny Hill. Sex becomes an almost animal act.
Compare this to 19th century literature, where sex is hardly hinted at, and we find the most passionate of characters. Passion, it seems, comes from what takes effort to achieve – and perhaps most importantly, an active mind to imagine.
Passion does not come from what is visible and obtainable, but from what must be disclosed and yearned for.
Now THAT is torrid!

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