jailbird@ihu1h.UUCP (Harvey) (07/29/86)
In light of the fact that a major network is "devoting an entire evening" concerning the Sexual Revolution, I think it appropriate to quote from an essay by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: I simplify but do not entirely misrepresent that supposed revolution if I describe it in this way: Wheras the ideal women in olden times might have given a dusty male wayfarer on the road of life a piece of pie - a modern women may now give him a hand job or a blow job as well. I am sorry, but that is how I read it. [Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. _Palm Sunday_, p. 318] Though rather myopic and male biased, I got a chuckle. Any comments? -- Ron Babes e-mail always welcomed! ..ihnp4!ihu1h!jailbird Hi Mom! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ God is dead. - Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead. - God ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
larrabee@decwrl.DEC.COM (Tracy Larrabee) (07/31/86)
In article <900@ihu1h.UUCP> jailbird@ihu1h.UUCP (Harvey) writes: >[...] > I simplify but do not entirely misrepresent that > supposed revolution if I describe it in this > way: Wheras the ideal women in olden times might > have given a dusty male wayfarer on the road of life > a piece of pie - a modern women may now give him a > hand job or a blow job as well. > > I am sorry, but that is how I read it. [Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. >_Palm Sunday_, p. 318] > I like Kurt Vonnegut, so I have to assume he meant that as a condemnation of the restricted nature of the average person's conception of the sexual revolution. Something about Harvey's presentation of the quotation does not allow me to give him the same slack. On the other hand, Where is my pie? -- Tracy Larrabee tracy@sushi.stanford.edu decwrl!larrabee Fashions in sin change. -Lillian Hellman-