
Camille Bordas Reads Saul Bellow
The New Yorker: Fiction
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Is There Something Going on With His Hair?
There's something going on with his hair, right? Ha, ha, absolutely. M i don't know if it's like a samson and delilah thing, or it isn't the first paragraph yet. His hair is kind of linked to his manhood, or is his power. And then someone wanting to cut it well, at's different from someone wanting to wash. So why do you think we have this final scene of hair washing? It's almost like chekof, you know, that yo, get the gun in the first scene, so here we get the shampoo in the first scenes. The ending is just that kind of amazing moment of complete physical sensuality
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