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Oct. 9th, 2002 11:17 amMarilyn French's 1977 novel The Women's Room is my current lunch-time reading. (I read Hannibal and The Joy Luck Club over the summer.)
I don't ordinarily do mainstream fiction, but this is fascinating. I'm reading it and going "I am SO Mira." I realize the character is meant to be a type, what was once called a blue-stocking, but I find that she is so much what I was, down to the Mdom/fsub fantasies of her early teens that it's like someone just took my life and wrote it.
Also got to see Witchcraft through the Ages last night. 1922, silent, Swedish. It was quite good, and reasonably accurate. The brass-heavy sixties score was a distraction, but Burroughs' narration fit nicely. I'd seen stills and most of the woodcuts.
I don't ordinarily do mainstream fiction, but this is fascinating. I'm reading it and going "I am SO Mira." I realize the character is meant to be a type, what was once called a blue-stocking, but I find that she is so much what I was, down to the Mdom/fsub fantasies of her early teens that it's like someone just took my life and wrote it.
Also got to see Witchcraft through the Ages last night. 1922, silent, Swedish. It was quite good, and reasonably accurate. The brass-heavy sixties score was a distraction, but Burroughs' narration fit nicely. I'd seen stills and most of the woodcuts.
