Thursday, January 22, 2009

Miss Ginger Cookie

In Tom Robbin's Novel Villa Incognito, The main dude/Robbins alter-ego spends the novel trying to marry a Laotian women with whom he's been in love forever. Romantic pursuit for a plot device- Fine. "Sadly," In the end of the book he looses the girl because she goes back into the woods to become a forest creature (good choice, I say, especially if your other option is spending an unwritten literary eternity with a Tom Robbins alter-ego).

So, what does our hero do? He pops on down to the red light district and weds Miss Ginger Cookie, a street worker with whom he spent a (disgustingly detailed) night early in the book.
From this I must deduce that to Tom Robbins, any Lao Woman will make as good a wife as any other.
The craziest part of all this is that More than One Person has suggested to me that Tom Robbins must actually be a woman publishing under a male pseudonym, evidenced by "how well he writes women." But that is a whole other story- One called Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and don't you worry, that novel WILL have its day in court on this blog. Tom Robbins, I hate you. Alice Munro- I only hate your stories. Tom: It's personal. Go eat a dick.

1 comment:

  1. Once again... i agree, never mind one dick...i suggest he eat an entire bag of them. It would be a start, keep him distracted.. away from the typewriter...

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