In a message dated 9/16/02 11:47:27 AM,
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com writes:
<< Maybe it's not so much an indictment of women, but
of the hedonistic lifestyle that McGee both championed and
disdained.
>>
I'd like to think that you're right,
Kevin, but I have my doubts. Much as I love old McGee, I
never knew him to waste any of his ruminating on whether he
dipped his wick too frequently or indiscriminately. He always
appeared to believe he was doing some sweet lass a favor when
he took her to bed, chased away her bad dreams, relieved all
her tension, restored her good humor, and showed her the
proper rhythm for the horizontal bop.
His partner numbers could have
rivaled those of Wilt Chamberlain and I doubt it would have
troubled him. Methinks he saw promiscuous women as the
candidates for "death stink," and men as merely
good-naturedly randy. In other words, I don't think he'd have
ever made the gender substitutions that you did in the
text.
Jim
Blue
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