Real Dolls (WAS Re: L. Ron Pynchon)

[Doug Millison]

At 8:47 AM 9/12/97, Christine Karatnytsky wrote:
>P.S.  Those dolls were *scary*!

After reading the Real Dolls FAQ, and taking a shower to get rid of the
grimy feeling, I tried to think of where that whole concept might go, in
fiction. I didn't arrive at any breakthroughs, but Kawabata's novel, House
of Sleeping Beauties, came to mind:  about a brothel that services old,
impotent men, who spend the night with drugged virgins -- who can't respond
even if there were something to invoke a response --  and recall the loves
of their youth. It's a creepy but beautiful book.

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