I am reading more Philip Roth today: here is an excerpt from a fight about contraceptive devices.
She walked over to me, leaving white footprints on the grass. “I didn’t think you were such a creature of the flesh,” she said.
“Didn’t you?” I said. “I’ll tell you something that you ought to know. It’s not even the pleasures of the flesh I’m talking about.”
“Then, frankly, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Why you’re even bothering. Isn’t what we use sufficient?”
“I”m bothering just because I want you to go to a doctor and get a diaphragm. That’s all. No explanation. Just do it. Do it because I asked you to.”
“You’re not being reasonable – ”
“Goddamit, Brenda!”
“Goddamit yourself!” she said and went up into the house.
– Philip Roth, GOODBYE, COLUMBUS
Dara Weinberg 