Loneo Moose (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} harmonicasylum) wrote,@ 2006-04-17 13:32:00 |
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- "Pregnancy baffled the husbands. After an initial
rush of male pride, they quickly recognised the minor
role that nature had assigned them in the drama of
reproduction, and quietly withdrew into a baffled reserve,
catalysts to an explosion they couldn’t explain. While
their wives grandly suffered in the bedrooms, Zizmo and
Lefty retreated to the sala to listen to music, or drove
to a coffee house in Greektown where no one would be
offended by their smell. They played backgammon and
talked politics, and no one spoke about women because
in the coffee house everyone was a bachelor, no matter
how old he was or how many children he’d given a wife
who preferred their company to his."
from Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
