When boys (grown men!) express a fondness for the fifties, like over at scrubbles (his collection of Campus Cuties, the Eames furniture, tupperware), or the novelty tunes EJL plays on Dragnet, I think that they must be their mother's sons. And sometimes they're not even old enough! I'm thinking of tomorrow night when I'll go to see B & S with my sister and her husband. I don't think I'll be able to explain. Of course, he has heard them before. Maybe it just means I don't know him well enough. For some, the bond isn't as obvious. Maybe Stuart is like that. (Would it explain the splinter of ice in his heart?) I don't think I gave enough credit to the surprise ending to The Hours, when it turns out that his life's work was not about Clarissa, but about his mother. The way it expands upon the doubts expressed in her own work, which are smoothed over there, or borne aloft by a swell of feminine fortitude (her admiration of Austen). But he is less engaging. I can't find the page now, the one I first flipped to before reading the book. It was about the different expectations men and women have of each other and the different needs that are filled. Or more concretely, the difference in a kiss. I guess it's the opposite of the tension in No Exit. What would make her complete under all that jauntiness? (I think it's the first time she has written anything like that.) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+