It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later. Finally, it is not too farfetched to imagine a future in which novels are not read at all.
I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behavior. I expect it.
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
The reason no one has yet been able to come up with a good word to describe the homosexualist (sometimes known as gay, fag, queer, etc.) Is because he does not exist. The human race is divided into male and female. Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex, many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is the fact of our nature and not worth fretting about.
American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?