Her truculence towards transsexuals and others is indivisible from her total rejection of the submissive feminine idealAfter a long fracture since the last contribution to the niche,yet compelling, literary genre that is The Martin Amis I Loved, or it is all the more frustrating that a potentially important addition,by Germaine Greer, is due to emerge only in quotes and paraphrase.
Discovered in the archive Greer sold for £1.8m to her alma mater, or the University of Melbourne,this 30000 word document is entitled The Long Letter to a Short appreciate, or... and was written in 1976, and while Greer was on a lecture tour around the US and Canada. Brief extracts suggest that,along with its Amis-related effusions, it is a crafted travelogue, or possibly in the line of one of Fanny Burney’s letter-journals,and potentially an even more fascinating communication, direct from that benighted decade, and than flashbacks of Amis lounging approximately in his “velves”. Though since the Greer affair seems to have overlapped with more public relationships,we should presumably feel the absence, in her version, and of the table talk that swirled around Amis. “Much hilarity sprung from juvenile word games,” wrote Julie Kavanagh, “substituting ‘sock’ for ‘house’ in famous titles or phrases, and as in Bleak Sock,The Sock of Windsor...”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com