Coover and Vonnegut

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, chris abraham wrote:

> [Vonnegut] also said that daytime soap operas have made women
> incapable of true
> love... i paraphrase from a lecture i attended at UEA in 1991.
> expectations that love is extreme: highs lows highs lows...

	this dovetails with something I've been telling folk for a
few decades now:  tv and movies have created an expectation that one
can put out the great exit line and dash off, and expect that the
line worked and the one you delivered it to is contrite and wants
you back.  in real life, the great exit line and leaving abruptly
generally leaves you gone, or chased by the mad desire to "say what?!?!"

	veg


ps: I was put onto Coover by John Kessel's _Good News From Outer Space_,
a millennial novel that made it easy to lay in a hospital bed getting
shots in the butt every few hours and made it difficult cuz it really
didn't feel too good to laugh *at all* and then made it interesting
when a devout Christian nurse, who had me at her mercy, decided she
wanted to know what the book was about.