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Article: Difficulties with Girls.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 19, 1989
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SINCE THERE ARE all kinds of girlsnot all of them female there can be all kinds of difficulties with girls. Kingsley Amis knows all about them, and he's willing and able to tell you.
That rakish fellow Patrick Standish had difficulties with girls, including Jenny Bunn, whom he deflowered, impregnated, and committed to marry in Take a Girl like You (1960). He declared then, "I'll be altogether different." But now we see, nearly thirty years later for us though only seven or so fictional years for him, that Patrick did not become altogether different after all. When he isn't ogling women, he's picking up copies of Titter and Twosome to eyeball. Patrick's ...