Teppy, I think you'd like Justine better now. It's all sex and mysteries and cabals and such.

I can certainly imagine proving that God exists and is a right bastard

That's Norman Mailer's famous quote in The Naked and the Dead. "If there is a God, he's a son of a bitch."

Vw - you probbably have 'til the end of the week before everything truely subsides with the inhaled steroids. - Just keep trying to go back to school, but accept that you might have to give up and go home. and Honestly, it was well over a month before I wasn't useing the abuteral at all.

Teppy, I think you'd like Justine better now. It's all sex and mysteries and cabals and such.

....in a sexy, nighttime telly sort of way? t /Izzard

....in a sexy, nighttime telly sort of way?

Well, I think so, but I think Durrell is pretty readable. I love stuff set in Colonial Northern Africa.

Of course, Durrell turned out to be supremely fucked up (in the Anne Sexton manner) but I don't hold that against his fiction.

In some people, it's sort of a creative asset.

Between Justine and The Sheltering Sky, I concluded that Northern Africa is full of really fucked-up people.

Between Justine and The Sheltering Sky, I concluded that Northern Africa is full of really fucked-up people.

That's the good part. It's good for the fiction. Of course, we're speaking mostly of the ex-pats of the 30s-50s. Not the locals who probably weren't particularly fucked up.

Thanks beth, that's a little encouraging.

Jen, yeah, I'm feeling some better, but not 100%...hence being back home now. Yesterday went pretty well, so I thought maybe I was in the clear, but I guess not.

Oppression fucks you up. Just not in sexy glamorous ways.

Teppy, I think you'd like Justine better now. It's all sex and mysteries and cabals and such.

And yet we're not talking about de Sade's Justine, right? This is some other Justine?