on "the aliens' in M &D

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 08:41:42 CDT 2015


Serendipitous find on Oedipa feeling like an alien. Not asserting causality.

Early 20th Century suffragette, Inez Haynes Gillmore in Harper's Bazaar in 1912:

"Confessions of an Alien"...."the duties and pleasures of the average
woman bore and irritate.
The duties and pleasures of the average man interest and allure [me]."

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> .."the legacy America, or there was just America and if there was just
> America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to
> be at all relevant to it, was as an alien"--- Oedipa
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