AtD / TRP / feminist type stuff

terrance terrance terrorence at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 29 16:52:26 CST 2006


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>"American males, ... still small boys inside.  Flange is this type of 
>character, although when I wrote this story I thought I wrote he was pretty 
>cool.  He wants children - why isn't made clear - but not at the price of 
>developing any real life shared with an adult woman. His solution to this 
>is Nerissa, a woman with the size and demeanor of a child.  I can't 
>remember for sure, but it looks like I wanted some ambiguity here about 
>whether or not she was a creature of his fantasies."

American males are still small boyz inside. I guess Tom settled down. No 
more drinking out of the milk carton. No more garbage man smearing rotten 
fish on the piano bench banging chicks on the fire escape Tom Swift books 
under the bed. Good for him, but that doesn't exactly lend itself to writing 
novels like GR.

Is that it?

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