Ironic scene isn't bad sex
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Tom Wolfe’s response to his winning of the Literary Review’s Bed Sex award for a passage in I Am Charlotte Simmons.
“There’s an old saying - ‘You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her sing’,” he told Reuters. “In this case, you can lead an English literary wannabe to irony but you can’t make him get it.”
Bad sex was just good irony, says Wolfe
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The “old saying” was by Dorothy Parker: “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”
Posted by: gordon | January 20, 2005 4:33 PM