New Yorker :: Love's Labor
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> The hero of Kipnis’s story is adultery. Conducting an adulterous
> affair amounts to a courageous insurrection against an
> inhuman social order. “Adultery is the sit-down strike of the
> love-takes-work ethic,” she says; it is, in fact, the “anarcho-
> syndicalism of private life.” And she has the revolutionary’s
> disdain for ameliorist measures.

It is a view of social progress that would necessarily benefit by the ready availability of nannies, or someone to look after the kids while the adults carried on their revolution. Young, twenty-something nannies, however (as opposed to grandparents), would offer the additional advantage of also serving as excellent adulterous fodder for the enlightened father-husband or (more utopiaic still) mother-wife.

[Note : click here for favorite cartoon from this issue of New Yorker]
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 7:35 PM

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