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?…
Oh, yes.
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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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“And now, darling,” Mr. Palmato said, drawing her to the deep divan, “let me show you what only you and I have the right...
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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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