Friday, February 18, 2005
The Literary Dick (as in Private Detective)welcomes questions about literary mysteries and scandals, which should be sent to woodyswoody@hotmail.com. The Literary Dick (as in Private Detective) is published by Jonathanames.com. Ames, our mentor here at the website, has a new book out called Wake Up, Sir!, which is getting some excellent notices!http://www.jonathanames.com
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Many Quesions from Joanna
This installment of The Literary Dick (as in Private Detective) comes via Joanna, who wrote in with the below. I am on the cases! A warning: the following question contains language that some might find hurtful, though we are sure that is not the intention of our latest letter-writer.
Dear Literary Dick,
Why are Ms. Woolf's books frequently stacked on the gay-and-lesbian-interest shelves in nice, smallish bookstores? I know Virginia Woolf was married, but did she do it with ladies on the sly, in all those rooms of their own? What's the deal with her and Vita Sackville-West? I've heard a lot of snarky jokes and really enthusiastic-- almost downright giddy-- allusions, but were they ever truly sexual partners, or is it all a lot of rumors and speculation? Not that I've read any of them, but didn't Virginia Woolf keep, like, a million and four journals? So did she ever discuss sex with women somewhere in there? Oh, and what's the deal with Leonard Woolf? He always seemed like kind of a fairy to me.
Fondly,
Joanna
P.S. Can you confirm that Willa Cather was a dyke? And wasn't T.S. Eliot horribly sexually repressed? Or maybe it was perverted. . . one of the two. He ditched his wife in a loony bin, right? Did he have weird affairs or something? I think I read that somewhere, or else I imagined it. Is it true that Tolstoy got in trouble for shtupping the serf girls? And last but not least: from what I gather, it is common knowledge that Evelyn Waugh liked to take it up the a** -- so what's with all the Catholicism?
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Many Quesions from Joanna
This installment of The Literary Dick (as in Private Detective) comes via Joanna, who wrote in with the below. I am on the cases! A warning: the following question contains language that some might find hurtful, though we are sure that is not the intention of our latest letter-writer.
Dear Literary Dick,
Why are Ms. Woolf's books frequently stacked on the gay-and-lesbian-interest shelves in nice, smallish bookstores? I know Virginia Woolf was married, but did she do it with ladies on the sly, in all those rooms of their own? What's the deal with her and Vita Sackville-West? I've heard a lot of snarky jokes and really enthusiastic-- almost downright giddy-- allusions, but were they ever truly sexual partners, or is it all a lot of rumors and speculation? Not that I've read any of them, but didn't Virginia Woolf keep, like, a million and four journals? So did she ever discuss sex with women somewhere in there? Oh, and what's the deal with Leonard Woolf? He always seemed like kind of a fairy to me.
Fondly,
Joanna
P.S. Can you confirm that Willa Cather was a dyke? And wasn't T.S. Eliot horribly sexually repressed? Or maybe it was perverted. . . one of the two. He ditched his wife in a loony bin, right? Did he have weird affairs or something? I think I read that somewhere, or else I imagined it. Is it true that Tolstoy got in trouble for shtupping the serf girls? And last but not least: from what I gather, it is common knowledge that Evelyn Waugh liked to take it up the a** -- so what's with all the Catholicism?
