CoL49(6): Humbert Humbert Cats

[rich]

Pynchon's mea culpas about his past attitudes is pretty annoying (and
hardly enlightening or original) ; his labored attempts to make up for
it in Vineland and AtD (w.r.t. to the ladies) weaken those books (who
can stand Yasmeen Halfcourt)

why do so many men hate women? answer that instead of spouting
half-baked feminist crap

rich

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "It is no secret nowadays, particularly to women, that many American
> males, even those of middle-aged appearance, wearing suits and holding
> down jobs, are, in fact, incredible as it sounds, still small boys
> inside.  Flange is this type of character, although when I wrote this
> story I thought he was pretty cool.  (SL, "Intro," p. 10)