cybercat wrote:
> "Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq." > wrote in message
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>>Kathleen wrote:
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>>>Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq. wrote:
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>>>>I didn't think much of Walton's "The Complete Angler" or "Zen and the
>>>>Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." And Kerouacks "On the Road" was only
>>>>slightly better.
>>>
>>>
>>>I didn't like any of the above, although I was told that I was supposed
>>>to.
>>>
>>>I read through Hemmingway's stuff by the time I was 10 - it was in the
>>>living room bookcase. At that point, nobody had told me what ultimately
>>>became of the man. Based on his writing alone, I thought that there was
>>>something seriously wrong with him. I was right. Don't even get me
>>>started on Salinger...
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>>I never found a Hemmingway story that i actually enjoyed reading. But im
>>very fond of Norman Mailer, his "Ancient Evenings" is a favorite
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> Sheldon Toad would love it. As I recall from reading it over 20 years ago,
> Mailer fixated on fellatio. In an Ancient Egypt setting.
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Hmmm how to put this politely? .... wrong end of the spectrum? Pharaoh
had a favorite
male friend, and Pharaoh rather treated him like a 'wife' in the sex
aspect of it?

The story is told by that friend, as a ghost recounting his life to himself.

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