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Nutty - Jul 05, 2006 4:28:29 pm PDT #5555 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I don't remember my first sex book, but I do remember trolling my mother's bookshelves when I was bored (this was how I picked up Steinbeck and Nathanael West), and happening upon a book of Anais Nin pornography.

Even at that age -- probably 16 -- I was pretty sure some of the things she was describing (in that old, shy language, but used in a bold, muscular way) were not actually physically possible, or if they were, probably not as much fun as she was making them out to be.

Topic!Cindy - Jul 05, 2006 4:38:26 pm PDT #5556 of 10002

What is even happening?

Nathanael West

Miss Lonelyhearts?

§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 4:49:03 pm PDT #5557 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wow. Cat People is really silly. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I've been expecting it...something more...for YEARS. Not here.

Nutty - Jul 05, 2006 4:54:42 pm PDT #5558 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Miss Lonelyhearts?

Yes! It was an omnibus of that and The Day of the Locust, and Miss Lonelyhearts was first, and I got all the way through it in a single sitting. It was one of those weird, "Wow, not all that much happened in the story, but I dug it all the same" kind of moments that I associate with mature reading.

Strega - Jul 05, 2006 5:01:43 pm PDT #5559 of 10002

Cat People is really silly.

The Kinski/McDowell one?

Great Bowie song, though.

§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 5:13:00 pm PDT #5560 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The Kinski/McDowell one?

Yeah. I mean, ow. The attempts at feline...

Great Bowie song, though.

True dat, homie.

msbelle - Jul 05, 2006 5:13:52 pm PDT #5561 of 10002

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Today. Boo.

Lee - Jul 05, 2006 5:18:38 pm PDT #5562 of 10002

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

What msbelle said.

Pix - Jul 05, 2006 5:19:06 pm PDT #5563 of 10002

The status is NOT quo.

ION, I just got a 404 message on a black page that said: "It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

BWAH! That makes me ridiculously happy.

Kristin, if you and I happen to teach any of the same novels in any of our classes, I'd love to arrange for a email or letter exchange with your students to do something of the same.

Sure! Setting up a blog or LJ community is probably the way to do it. (Note to self: create new, innocuous LJ identity.)

I know your kids are also American teens, but you teach at a upper middle class, mostly Jewish school, right?

Well......my old school was. I'm starting at a new all-girls school in August.

megan walker - Jul 05, 2006 5:19:46 pm PDT #5564 of 10002

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Erin,

If you do end up teaching Northanger Abbey, try getting your hands on a copy of the Palgrave Master Series on Jane Austen, IIRC it has an in-depth discussion/analysis of NA.

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