A Month of Sundays
Like an Updike housewife willing to have sex with the amorphous Protestant Pastor or unpleasant dentist
And willing to have her sex-acts described in purple prose
It's the permissive 70s; it's ok to covet thy neighbor's wife and bomb Vietnam
Guilt is good for the soul; therefore a certain quantity of sin needs first to be committed
The Pastor's wife is screwing the hippy Assistant -Pastor, who is against the noble war in Vietnam
(I'm a teenager reading this for its unsatisfactory Protestant pornography
A few years later I'll read an explanation of Updike's ugly theology in the New York Review of Books
And a memoir by Updike on why he thought the war was so noble.)
The Pastor who narrates this novel is sent to a re-education camp for sex-offending ministers; really more like a spa
Where he can write up his sexual experiences in florid New Yorker-style prose
He'll be re-assigned to another congregation, I suppose
A bad air quality day; I can't catch my breath all evening
At five in the morning I stil can't breathe so I start to compose this unpleasant memoir of reading Updike novels in the 1970s. . .
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