CHARACTERS


COMET FOX by Peter Quinones is a little bit of a leap if you’re not ready for it.

THE MUSE

“You think you got all the sense and everybody else is from the ghetto!”

APASIONADA BLOODWORTH

“Once I get into your life I am the itch you cannot scratch.”

COX WEEZO

“Fucka ma zee, fucka ma za.”

BANJA’S MOTHER

“Her mother croaked recriminations from the bed while the servants stared on, their eyeballs made of ice.”

BLUE CHICK BLUE

“She was slowly coming to understand that he had discussed her with Blue Chick Blue behind her back – and this was something she could not accept.”

OCTAVIUS de FLOWER

“His brown eyes screamed with the hunger of life.”

BANJA de BANJA

“If I admit that the lettuce in the salad I made you was turning a little brown will you give me another chance to win your love?”

LAUNCH GARCIA and DELICATA PORTUGAL

“The laws of the human eye were very kind to them.”

JARENA SANCHEZ

“She was a locomotive for all the wrong emotions.”

JOVIETTE

“She walked in a manner that wasn’t objectively erotic but it turned Banja on immensely – while she went along step by step she kept one arm straight at her side and swung the other back and forth in the air like a pendulum.”

MR. GASOLINE

“Possibility of blood.”

THAMES

“Thames felt like he was supposed to be snorting blow in a toilet stall in The Odeon.”

HOLLY TEAGARDEN

“You know,” Holly said, “since about three o’clock this afternoon I’ve had the feeling like I want to fuck somebody then kill them.”

ACTIVON KALUNGIS

“…you don’t have any real knowledge of a fellow human being until you’ve observed them in action in all different kinds of weather.”

BECKY de FLOWER

“Becky would spit on her ex husband Scott de Flower. She would rub the snot from her nose in his face.”

DICKIE GREEN

“I have to pee. Do you think this is the kind of place where the urinal cakes are upside down? Because I really just couldn’t stand that right now. I think they’d have to put me in a straitjacket.”

CHEETIE

“Every weekday night at one AM Cheetie left her heart and soul on the 47th floor.”

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

He is not a character in this book. He is immortal because he once called John Updike “a penis with a thesaurus.”

GUEST COMMENTRARY BY MAY VISS

I get the sadz when I see male writers try to gratify their ego(s) by writing forth with a female main character.  I’m of the school that concurred with David Foster Wallace when he called John Updike a penis with a thesaurus.

In short, literature about women should be left to feminist literature.

Like, I mean, that pig Kurt Vonnegut had crude drawings of a vagina in his books.  Stuff like that was considered funny back in the Stone Age.  And did you know that in Good as Gold that other famous sexist misogynist of postmodern literature, Joseph Heller, had a character say she’d been practicing how to give fellatio just to impress Bruce Gold?  Don’t even get me started on Thomas Pynchon.  Talk about the male gaze!  And that other great understander of the female mind, Don DeLillo – he ghostwrote something called Amazons.  What more proof do we need???  William S. Burroughs believed in an male society with reproduction confined to test tubes!

But I’d have to admit that sometimes when a male author undertakes the female viewpoint the result can give me the feelz.  When a literary friend told me I Am Mary Dunne was written by a man I couldn’t believe it, so that’s one good example. Also If Beale Street Could Talk, that was by a man.  And one called Brazzaville Beach. 

So this proves truth this can sometimes happen, even if Madame Bovary still makes us puke today, what with our modern consciousness.

MAY VISS has posted comments on more than 5000 message boards.  Among her many interests are the land and the sea.

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