Now that you've gotten to know a little about the Crafty Concubine, here I am: MILF. I chose this super-secret sexy screen name because I'm due to have a baby, like, now. Or at least this week sometime. I'm not a college student, but rather an ex-high school student with a few college credits kind of floating around while I wait to have this baby and get back in school.
Like Crafty Concubine, I'm a huge Nabokov fan, and am near-obsessed with Lolita. I like to sit around and consider how she managed to capture Humbert so completely, and how her spirit embodies all that is 'American'.
My other great source of literary inspiration is Breakfast at Tiffany's, hence the profile picture of Holly Golightly. I'm no Lolita, by any means, but I think I have something in common with our Holly. To sum up her life for those of you who haven't read the book/ seen the movie, she started out as uneducated Lula Mae on a farm in Nebraska (I believe, could be wrong), left home and got married at fourteen, had four kids, gave up on the hillbilly life and moved to Los Angeles where she became fluent in French, then somehow wound up in New York City as a call-girl and "a phony, the most real phony you'll ever meet." Holly Golightly's somehow Gastby-ish Platonic conception of herself is a source of endless fascination for me.
And finally, I'm here a little to help me develop the theme of a novel I'm writing, which centers on gender roles and sexuality in suburban versus rural America. Perhaps I'll post some short excerpts, but mostly I will be contemplating the complex issues of sexuality: in America, around the world, in little bars, under trains, in literature, by each gender, through genetics, behind hay bales, on pin-up posters, with drugs, without inhibitions, and with more than enough run-on sentences.
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