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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 12:53 AM Original message |
Ever slightly bothered by Henry Miller's use of the word "teats?" |
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Radio_Lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. Only in "Chorus Line" -- this song was sort of a parody of Miller. |
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6000eliot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. Oh, there are more offensive words than THAT in that book! |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
3. Not really, but I don't think I was sober at any point |
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RagingInMiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. More bothered by the scene where his flatmate is taking a dump |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 09:17 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I think you got it right. |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
6. I think all future editions should substitute the more urbane "tits." |
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XNASA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
7. How about 'bubs'? |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:02 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Good one. And how cool was "fug" in "The Naked and the Dead"? |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I think Gore Vidal was really onto something with that |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
9. Henry Miller is a misogynist. |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:13 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Gore Vidal agreed with you at one point during the sixties. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:20 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. That's like saying Mark Twain was a racist |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. No I'm not. nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. How is Henry Miller a misogynist in your opinion? |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:12 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. He depersonalizes women in his writing. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:14 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Again, you're not taking into context when Tropic was written |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:17 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Okay. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:20 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Well it's just my opinion |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I'm not angry. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Hey I don't think that at all |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
12. No more than Anais Nin's use of "Sex" to describe the vagina |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. How about Anais Nin's use of the word "ensorcelled" every other page? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 11:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Not a fan of Nin either |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. well a lot of older writers had that usage |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
17. I don't partake of such sexually conservative books... |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 12:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. You more of a Georges Bataille guy? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
19. More disturbed by the imagery involved with arpeggios in Henry Miller |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 12:39 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I don't remember it, but I take your word that it disturbs you. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
21. it's all unattractive as far as i'm concerned |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Well we are, after all, animals |
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swag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 02:54 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Yeah, never did find his sexual descriptions to be arousing. |
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WoodyTobiasJr (528 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-27-06 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
32. Marlilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller |
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