“My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live”

New found love: Erica Jong. She is like the female version of Henry Miller. But better... more raw, real, passionate. When I read about the kinds of things that Henry writes about, there is always the presence of absence... something missing for the female reader. I am head over heels in love with Jong's Any Woman's Blues.

"I must admit that my Dyckman Street Jewish childhood had left me with a lifelong fascination for old WASP ways. I was not just fucking a man when I fucked Dart; I was fucking American history, the Mayflower myth, the colonial past. While my ancestors were tearing their pumpernickel apart in the Ukraine, Dart's were choosing amongst a plethora of silver forks and taking tea at the Colonial Dames of America. The table analogy was apt, for though Dart's family was downwardly mobile (as only Social Register WASPs can be), they still had enough sets of silver and bone china to serve presidents and kings -- in the unlikely event that presidents and kings should come to call."