can you post the link to the New York piece please?
Roger
On 7/7/05, Rachel Loden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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> > Sarnoff Corporation
> > 609-734-2538
> >
>
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