Thanks, Mark

[Joseph Tracy]

The exact quote is “Every woman adores a fascist,…” same meaning, perhaps more emphatic but perhaps also more fickle. adore: latin root- to speak (orare’) to (ad)  also implies to pray to, to chant the name of, to worship


> On Dec 2, 2021, at 10:33 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sylvia Plath? Hadn’t run across that poem before. I know, I know, where
> have I been? So sue me for Pollyannatude, I’d rather read jollier stuff
> most of the time! But I did stumble into a poetry reading a few years ago
> where a young woman was expressing similar sentiments towards her own
> father at greater length and with great vehemence. So that’s another data
> point.
> 
> I hadn’t remembered Maxine getting involved with Slagiatt either workwise
> or lovewise. Just saw the unraveling of the anagram somewhere (“seemed like
> a good idea at the time”) and that’s what chose to stick, memorywise.
> 
> 
> Mark Kohut wrote:
> 
> Pynchon has this 'insight' into certain kinds of women or else this 'slur'
> against women in general:
> 
> They like, often against themselves, 'strong', tough, insensitive (to
> almost be euphemistic) men, who might
> also be described as arrogant, authoritarian men generalized with that
> infamous line from Sylvia Plath: Every woman
> loves a fascist.
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