NP but RIP Hugh Hefner --since no one else here might.
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 03:28:43 CDT 2017
I woke up this morning thinking my coy allusive words about Updike's remark
would probably make anyone
think he said something about the beauty of naked women ala Playboy for
young men. Stupidly wrong.
The quote has heart, and is not just about naked or artistic nude beauty
and is close to this: The most beautiful sight
a young man--he means when we were still boys--sees is the naked body of a
woman---he meant girl, a peer--he is in love with.
There....
She was beautiful.
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> I reveal myself surely unflatteringly and surely politically incorrectly
> these days
> when I say the 'working title' of GR, before I was enlightened by all of
> the
> Orientalists, *Mindless Pleasures* usually made me think of Playboy
> Magazine.
> Even the stories and articles.
>
> I won't quote John Updike's wonderful insight into most inartistic young
> men and beauty here
> for fear of everyone, but think of nudes in art history and imagine what
> he said.
>
> Thank you for everything Hugh, including paying Dick Gregory to find the
> bodies of
> the murdered civil rights workers in the 60's.
>
>
>
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