Hi there, Jonathan Franzen. We hope you are having a lovely Tuesday. So you say Edith Wharton was a prude, confined largely to a sexless marriage, hemmed in by plainness and haunted to write about the very beauty and passion that was lacking in her own life?
But have you read her porn?…
Heavens!
:defiled:
Writer shuffling between New York, London, and Manila. I like to keep work and romance geographically separate from the rest of my life.
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quite vividly from my class with Professor Bauer. Let’s not even go to the pickle dish in Ethan Frome or Countess...
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The Jonathan Franzen statement just proves how utterly irrelevant EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS.
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………………… And…scene. Erm, how does she not cock her head at him and laugh? Was going fine,
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whole thing here.
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for calling out Franzen on reading
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Oh Edith Wharton. How I love (and relate to) you so.
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