"Mantissa" means essentially an unnecessary verbal addendum. Mildly amusing, mildly erotic, mildly neurotic. It mostly seems like the work of a dirty old man treading water, mildly undecided between putting sex or love, or some combination of the two, at the sole apex of life, while suspecting those...
[This note was made in 1983:]. John Fowles' Mantissa left me perplexed - not because I couldn't figure out that it's a novel about the creative process; that much stares you in the face - but because I can't quite put my finger on why it leaves a bad taste in my mouth (said she, madly mixing metapho...
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