Ken, perhaps I should have said that Dworkin struck me as an unconscious
pornographer, to borrow Dominic's word. Her novel Mercy is fully
searchable at amazon.com. Trying punching in anything pornographic. Or
just read the thing, page after masochistic page (I couldn't). She seems
to have been a secret pornographer who kept the secret from herself.
That's only my take, of course. I'm not a Dworkin expert. Her life was
obviously incredibly sad. Thanks for pointing me to the New York piece,
though--it's online and amazing and probably the last thing I ever want
to read on the subject.
Rachel
> Just read something about her while waiting in a doctor's
> office: really
> an obituary. The usual two-month-old copies of magazines,
> this time New
> York. For a change not their usual smarmy tone as though John Simon
> wrote everything hmself: it was elegaic and rather sad. The story
> included comments from John Stoltenberg, her Significant
> Other, who wept
> openly during the interview. Really, not to get back to
> Dworkin again,
> but the article made it sound very much like she could have
> appropriated
> the Alexander Pope line "This long disease, my life." How
> much illness
> affected her thinking and expression is not my call. I'm
> really curious
> what you mean by a secret pornographer. It guess that's where my
> question is heading.
>
> >What I remember about Long Island is boys brandishing switchblades on
> >the schoolbus. Edie Falco of the Sopranos grew up there and says that
> >made it easy to slip into Carmela. Which she does brilliantly.
> >
> >
> Falco's from the Island too? You're right, she's fabulous.
> I'd rather
> watch her than Gandolfini, and that's saying something.
> Switchblades on
> the schoolbus is hardly news if you live in Monmouth County,
> NJ. It's
> "expected" in the poorer cities like Asbury Park and Long
> Branch. But
> my SO's son went to Christian Brothers Academy, not because
> his mother's
> SuperCatholic ("fear and loathing" comes closer), but because
> even the
> suburban regional high school is so low-standard and dangerous that
> drugs and weapons were accurately assumed. As it is, one of
> the kid's
> bus-mates on the way to CBA was an overprivileged little punk
> who used
> to smoke joints during the trip and wound up taking a trip to
> long-term
> rehab. Drugs, I have been educated to understand, are
> everywhere--and
> where drugs go, weaponry is not far behind
>
> Kenny Walnuts
>
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