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Lapham's Quarterly: Edith Wharton was a prude? We don't suppose you've read her porn, then.

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Hi there, Jonathan Franzen. We hope you are having a lovely Tuesday. So you say Edith Wharton was a prude, confined largely to a sexless marriage, hemmed in by plainness and haunted to write about the very beauty and passion that was lacking in her own life?

But have you read her porn?…

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    quite vividly from my class with Professor Bauer. Let’s not even go to the pickle dish in Ethan Frome or Countess...

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    The Jonathan Franzen statement just proves how utterly irrelevant EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS.

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    ………………… And…scene. Erm, how does she not cock her head at him and laugh? Was going fine,

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    whole thing here.

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    for calling out Franzen on reading

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