Eat butterflies with me?

Author: neonate

Score: 23

Comments: 10

Date: 2020-11-04 22:02:58

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croissants wrote at 2020-11-05 17:45:28:

If you like this kind of article, written by this author, she did it for Updike too:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n19/patricia-lockwood/ma...

cafard wrote at 2020-11-06 20:30:37:

Florence King was briefer in the essay "Phallus in Wonderland": "Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors." (_Poorhouse Fair_) Or "Having read detailed descriptions of approximately six bushels of pubic hair, nameless forces drove me to go seeking and questing through my kitchen drawer to gather up all the Twisties I've saved and arrange them by color."

asciimo wrote at 2020-11-05 19:26:31:

> I was hired as an assassin. You don’t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you’re hoping to see blood on the ceiling.

I'm hooked already.

goatcode wrote at 2020-11-05 16:22:47:

I'm 12 years old and what is this?

gumby wrote at 2020-11-05 17:02:10:

It is a book review

neonate wrote at 2020-11-04 22:03:18:

https://archive.is/lvkuW

spookybones wrote at 2020-11-05 17:15:22:

Maybe it’s me, but Nabokov becomes increasingly cringeworthy as I get older.

Deely123123 wrote at 2020-11-05 17:53:25:

Could you tell us more?

This happened only with Nabokov or other writers became cringeworthy too?

spookybones wrote at 2020-11-06 02:47:30:

Just him. It’s a mixture of his alliterate precious prose, narcissism, and droll humor that rarely makes me laugh.

cafard wrote at 2020-11-05 14:47:39:

Most interesting, and I suppose I'll get a copy. Thanks for posting this, and particularly the paywall bypass.