So sorry for the late post!! Finals time is starting to take over! I am absolutely loving Middlesex. I think it’s amazing that Eugenides is able to take such a powerful taboo right from the very beginning and make us (well at least me) root for the characters involved. Lefty and Desdemona’s relationship has all […]
Despite being in the midst of reading articles about hermaphrodites, drag queens, and transsexuals and finishing the documentary, Southern Comfort, for another course, I think I’ll try to choose to not write about intersexuality and related topics for this week’s response for Middlesex simply because in the bulk of book one and two, Calliope/ Cal […]
Oh Lolita, my Lolita, I have begun to feel for you! Dear Humbert was endearing and charming when his having Lo was but a fantasy. However, what I read in Part Two of Lolita eroded my warm feelings toward Humbert Humbert. How could they not when he admitted to threatening Dolores for sex? “I relied […]
