Re: Sunday Times article
Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:27:36 -0800 (PST)
Tim,
I haven't read any Vonnegut so I'm just reacting to the quote, which
none the less I hate.
Florie
>From: Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:30:08 -0500
>
>On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 07:55:21AM -0800, Florie Sommers wrote:
>
>> "thinking about beautiful [intelligent] women distracts the male
mind"
>>
>> I was hoping that this is what he meant because the idea that a
>> beautiful woman isn't worth anything if she's educated made me puke
>> right here in my seat.
>
>Remember too that virtually everything Vonnegut says is shot through --
>sometimes twice -- with deep irony. So, I tend to give him more than
>the benefit of the doubt; he loves to make PRONOUNCEMENTS as if they
>were truly authoritative, when he himself is the first to admit that
>they are as likely to be large socks full of horse manure as they are
>truths.
>
>--tim o'connor
>
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