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...Night-Sea Journey" is a monologue of a spermatazoa on its way to the ovum. It is amusing, and, unlike the other stories, is about love, however abstractly that compact may be presented. There is, though, a basic flaw in the piece: In fantastic literature, the author is allowed to make any conditions he likes, but once these are established, the action must be within their limits. The reader will allow Barth to allow a spermatazoa to meditate, but he cannot allow that spermatazoa to record theories about his purpose (correct in every detail)--which theories no spermatazoa could ever...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Barth and Nabokov: Come to the Funhouse, Lolita | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

...York City Federation of Women's Clubs, the New York League of Women Voters.* Disclosed for the first time last week to the general U. S. public was the fact that Russian experimenters have successfully inoculated women against pregnancy. Four or five doses of serum made from spermatazoa has made women infertile for from five to six months, when further injections continued the temporary sterility. Chief mover of last week's conference was Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, wife of a famed Manhattan insurance economist. She has been president of the Ameri- can Birth Control League since Mrs. Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Voluntary Parenthood | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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