The stange case of Mr. Rilke

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Terrance wrote:

> 
> 
> But first this message from our favorite critic. 
> 
> 
> One cannot think of any contemporary novelist
>               except Roth who would have chanced this story,
> in
>               which a seventy-one-year-old black professor
> of classics
>               who has been passing for white is hounded out
> of his
>               job for a remark taken to be racist and spends
> his newly
>               free time having oral sex with a woman almost
> half his
>               age.
> 
> This is art imitating life, I know this story, gotta read
> this book. 

There's also in the early pages--which as far as I've got--to something
called the wisdom of molestation. Pretty far out that.

				P.