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...proud otherworldly tradition. Stylistically, the novel is the nonstop confession of Monty (né Pendrid) Chatworth, a British-born American TV interviewer. He is something of an Anglo-American Alexander Portnoy, but with a crucial difference. Portnoy, draped over a psychiatrist's couch, complained that his lust was repugnant to his stern Hebraic morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between...
...statement, "There is no simple answer or ready remedies to the problem of 'Youth for Sale on the Streets' " [Nov. 28]. There is in fact an obvious solution: eliminate the market. Not once did you mention those who pay for the services of these teens. Without their lust there would be no Mafia involvement, no pimps, no juvenile prostitutes. The sick clods who are degrading these young people need to be strung up by their thumbs...
...even Big Daddy can match Bokassa's lust for extravagance. No expense was spared to make sure that his coronation would be splendid in every way. Items...
...youth camps, lust is as deadly as exhaustion. Young men and women can be executed merely for talking to one another or sitting together. The only opportunity to find a mate is in the fields. When a likely spouse appears, an elderly emissary inquires about his or her availability; if both the boy and the girl are willing, the cooperative's controller is asked to sanction marriage. Says Bousa Voen, 22, a refugee at Surin, in broken but poignant English: "I never talked to my husband before we marry. He just know I beautiful and want to make love...
...brutality of the rape scene in Blind Date adds to the fuel of those who criticize Kosinski for the insensitive treatment of women in his novels. Told from Levanter's viewpoint, the rape becomes a justifiable act, the logical culmination of his lust. Elsewhere in the novel, female characters seldom rise above the status of sexual playmates to which Levanter, and presumably Kosinski, relegates them...