Tracking the ever-elusive Great American Novel

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry Musikar [mailto:hmusikar at speakeasy.net]
> I once heard Morrison on the radio, where she said that the Venus de Milo
> was a misogynist work because its amputation/disfigurement of a woman image,
> leaving only the sexualized torso.  

y'know, I've thought the same thing several times.  (Sometimes when high)
But isn't really the point of the thing that it survived all that history, even though it's somewhat broken?