CHAPTER 7
Seven is the loneliest number.
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*NO SPOILERS*
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posted by Erik at 8:20 PM
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Notes:
Interesting that even Stingo's enlightenment to the humanity of Jews sounds like a stereotype, just of a milder, different sort, and the fetishizing which seems to have been introduced in chapter 5, continues:
In describing Leslie's house, he says, "I was totally unprepared for such affluence.... This cultural shock -- a sudden fusion of the libido with a heady apprehension of filthy but thoughtfully spent lucre -- caused me a troubling mix of sensations." Filthy lucre? Well at least it's thoughtfully spent....
I suppose what might be more important here is the eroticizing of the "exotic," or unfamiliar, in the same way Stingo assumes Leslie has exoticized him in his southernness, but the obsession with Jewish themes, language, history (specifically in the way he invokes Freud and psychoanalysis as at fault for Leslie not putting out).... I'm interested to see what, if anything, he does with all this.
Favorite line:
"In the soft light of the foyer my membrum, betrowsered, is fully rampant." HOT.
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