Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:28:02 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Porn


Mark Jones:
>Malgosia and I were just discussing War & Peace
>off-list.

My favorite scene in Tolstoi's Anna Karenina is when Dolly tells Levin that
she is ready to return his love for the first time. He, a country bumpkin,
has cared for her, a social snob, during her lengthy illness which has
humbled her like Ivan Illyich's fatal disease humbled him. He is swept off
his feet by her confession and later that night walks back to his apartment
through the city streets in a rapturous state. Nobody has ever written more
convincingly about what it feels like to be in love.

I don't see how everybody can go on at such lengths about sex. It is really
embarrassing to me. It reminds me of what my Religion professor, the kindly
old bachelor Dr. Kullman, told us in class back at Bard College in 1963. He
said that Martin Luther once characterized sex as necessarily unclean
because it involves the same body parts that you pass waste from. Any
thoughts?

Louis Proyect





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