I really do think I've figured something out...

[PCIntern]

By way of prefacing this, as I normally do with something somewhat trivial, I have a memory for literature and phrases which is uncanny and belies my usual forgetfulness of important issues and where-I-left-the-car-keys. One thing which I recall directly is of paramount...or paramour, as Shakespeare most definitely punned on in "Midsummers Night's Dream"...importance:

I'm certain that everyone recalls mccain's vilification of cindy-the-beloved as a 'trollop' and a 'c*nt'. those two words appear together within a few pages of...drumroll....


Henry Miller's TROPIC OF CAPRICORN...


Wanna bet once of mccain's seminal volumes (also a pun) was that book...he especially 'dug' the part about Lola. Anyone else remember the piano teacher Lola?

On edit: this is not unimportant...on the one hand, I give him credit for reading literature which at one time banned and considered pornographic even though it was great literature. OTOH, I think that placing your wife in the mindset of one whose view of women was, shall we say, distorted, speaks volumes. For the record, my parents had the famous Grove Press three volume set of T. of Cancer, T. of Capricorn, and Black Spring bound nicely and in a trilogy carrier. Very progressive...and very hot stuff to a 12 year old who discovered them thinking they were... geography texts!

[PCIntern]

1. Narcissistic self-kick for the evening crowd...

why be any different from anyone else...?

[grantcart]

2. can you give us the original context?

especially of trollop

that is too ancient to even be archaic.

[PCIntern]

5. Here:

trol·lop Audio Help /ˈtrɒləp/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. an immoral or promiscuous woman, esp. a prostitute.
2. an untidy or slovenly woman; slattern.


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n.
A woman regarded as slovenly or untidy; a slattern.
A strumpet.

[Raine]

3. Interesting theory

but I don't think McSAME is that intelligent.

[PCIntern]

4. I believe that he read Henry Miller as a young man...

many of us did and although I'm about 15 years younger than he, Miller's stuff was much more popular before my time than during my era of young-porno-reader. Young People must understand that there was precious little to read of that genre that was remotely accessable to many...and those in school were 'turned on' to Miller the way some were turned on to Kerouac or Ayn Rand. People played bridge for recreation, for God's sake, in those days. It was a different time in the US.

Ah...Lola the piano teacher and the railroad tracks...

and the gal and her sister on the lake...who could forget?