Word: kitten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, Robin, a canary, died. Tom Kitten, a cat, was given away and died thereafter. A rabbit, presented to the President with the claim that he could play a trumpet, apparently went off on a toot and has not been seen in months...
Naturally, JC never understands Kitten. Readers, making their way through her frantic, phonetic dialect, in which breathtaking obscenities are so pervasive that they soon cease to shock, will at first sympathize with him. But Author Gover is gleefully staging the classic confrontation between educated fool and ignorant sage. Even in broken English, Kitten soon turns out to be a lot smarter and pleasanter than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force...
...sophomore spends a weekend with a pretty 14-year-old Negro prostitute under the manly misapprehension that she has invited him because she finds him irresistible. The girl, on the other hand, is convinced that it is all to be a paying proposition. Outraged when her guest resists payment. Kitten steals her rightful $100 fee from his pants pocket. He tries to get it back...
Jaybird Naked. Of course JC has been warned about iniquity. "The danger of moral cancer, as Dad calls it, is ever present," he explains. But could Dad have prepared him for Kitten's un-American attack on television? She dismisses a global panel discussion that JC is ungallantly watching as "dum rockit rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else...
Greek & Graceful. The letters show Wilde as something far more than the talented fop of his own self-caricature. The collection begins with fond early letters from Wilde to his friends at Magdalen College, Oxford. Their nicknames are "Kitten," "Bouncer" and "Puss" (Wilde's was "Hosky"). Wilde's active homosexualism is not thought to have begun until years later; nothing is to be inferred from cute nicknames or cuddly phrases beyond the surrogate sexuality common to young upper-class British males in Victorian times. The public-school youth of those years lived a womanless life from the time...