Run on the Bank

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 26 08:27:56 PDT 2000


Michael Pollak wrote:


>On Thu, 25 May 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Even the way he ogles women gives lust a bad name.
>
>Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, from Rebecca West's novel, _The
>Thinking Reed_. (I first ran into it as a captionn under a picture in
>Cockburn & Silverstein's _Washington Babylon_): "[He was the sort of man
>who] even when he was peering down a woman's breasts managed to look as
>though he was thinking about India."

Nice quote, but Summers had more of a proprietary leer about him than a wonky distractedness.

Doug



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