Deducing what actually seems to have been going on in the mind of the author of the famous review trashing The Lord of the Rings: my latest Tolkien Society blog post.
I should have added that it appears that Wilson doesn't think women count, as he describes (hetero)sex as men's quest to pork women, who are evidently the passive vessels of this. If he'd chosen to chive Mitchison individually the way he chived Auden, I would have gotten into this in the post.
Ursula Le Guin once had a good sarcastic response to somebody's (Freud's?) claim that writers write for fame, money, and the love of women.
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Ursula Le Guin once had a good sarcastic response to somebody's (Freud's?) claim that writers write for fame, money, and the love of women.