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it's kind of like being really high and eating carmels. you chew and chew and it's good and good and you just don't ever get sick of it. |
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you're the only girl i think i would say this to: you should read philip roth. i think you might really like him. a lot of people find him contemptible, and even those who appreciate his mastery chicken out. if you're writing a lot, you might really like him. "deception" and "the counterlife," especially. "sabbath's theater" is his true masterpiece. also, "my life as a man," "zuckerman bound," and "portnoy's complaint," of course. [...] i'm glad [...] i had the time to read all his books. the new york times critic seems to have liked it. "But an older, mature Roth is in command of the narrative here -- a Roth who knows when to curb his deadly tongue for parody ... who senses when to be ironic and when to let pathos speak for itself -- and that makes all the difference." -- christopher lehmann-haupt |
i am really enjoying the way it is written. the stories are told alternately by an immortal spider and the gatekeeper to the land of the Queen Mother, who are competeing to give the best rendering of the lives of 9 women. it looks like Krikus reviews didn't really like it. fuck them. i'm enjoying it. |
i just remember being impressed by, but not actually enjoying, philip roth. your mileage may vary. i think i read a roth short-story once, too. "eli the fanatic." |
I think it was the one where: the main character, a novelist, had an ex-wife who called his new girlfriend "renata fat tits." renata, who was about thirty years younger than the writer, wanted the writer to marry her. she was also dating a morgue heir, who made much more money but was not as good a date for dinner parties ("and what do you do?"). the french government gives him some sort of award for his work, and at some point in the novel a french guy tells him it's the same award they gave to the people who designed a new public garbage can ("poubelle"). renata tells the writer that she can keep getting his dick up until he's in his 70s. he remembers a time when she cooked dinner for him nude and thinks she would have been right. there's a scene in a new york old man bathhouse, and the toilets are really gross. that's all I remember. maybe it wasn't even saul bellow. |
nico often cooks for me in the nude. she could keep me hard until i ......aaaAAAAAAAHHHH there is a resturaunt here in hollywood called La Poubelle..... |
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