Tropic of Capricorn
I read the book and underline the parts that I find most funny or profound, and those I feel could have been written by or about me. I like to make things about me, as many people do. When he writes about sex I hope he will say more because I am interested in this topic if you can believe it. And he does!
The old man seated across the aisle on the airplane asked me how I am enjoying Henry Miller. When he asks that another man whips his head around from the next row up. Oh it’s great I’m enjoying it lots. He tells me it’s an old banned book and to keep it up. He’s winking in how he talks to me. Yes yes I know.
I believe it is a gift to women that we can be aroused without it making a scene. Men are really punished with the visibility of erections. Not that I have any complaints about those. But if I were a man I know I would be causing problems. This must be why God made me a woman.
I have to stop reading because it is putting me in a spot that is not appropriate for the circumstances. * said to me one time something about him imagining me shifting in my chair and feeling it. He would like that wouldn’t he. Maybe I will tell him about my experiences today on the airplane. I try to be coy with him but it’s not in my nature.