Ailz's Quiet Life - But a Happy One

I've just been reading the journal of someone I would class as a good friend - I won't give her name as she is a very private person. It was about falling in love every time you see your partner/spouse and I know just what she means. Sometimes I'm overwhelmed by my feelings for poliphilo  - I look at him and it just takes my breath away.  I admit that the idea of growing old and 'losing' the sexual part of our relationship depresses me, so imagine how much I enjoyed listening to an 'old' couple (she was 87 and he was older) on the radio saying how they still made love at least once a week.  She put it more as a 'use it or lose it' function.   I remember my ex-husband's Great Aunt Florrie telling me how she'd been to the doctor and asked him to give Uncle Arthur something to 'calm him down' as he'd started with the wandering hands in bed.  The doctor told her she should be grateful at 90 that he was still interested!

My essay this month is about 'The Presentation of Women's relationships in The Color Purple and A Jury of Her Peers, because the block we are doing is Literature and Gender and we have to read with Gender on the Agenda which is a stupid term.  I found The Color Purple interesting but a bit too much of a fairy story where everything comes right for everyone (even Sophia up to a point).  I found the writings by Nettie in Africa a bit weak and  naive, but interesting for all that.  i was amazed to find that one person doing the course (we have the chance to talk to one another via the OU website) found the book disgusting and vomit worthy and was refusing to read it.  I said about this in class and an Irish lady probably in her 30's said that she found it offensive and that there were certain parts in it that she would never speak or write about.  Whether this was the religion or the lesbianism I didn't find out, but I was shocked that in this day and age someone should be so affected by it.  I warned her not to read Tasha's Story.

I know that Alice Walker sees The Color Purple as a theological book 'examining the journey from the religious back to the spiritual' and I wonder whether, having done this journey myself, makes the idea seem less extraordinary. 

Anyway I'm struggling something awful with the essay!!

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