Dec 25, 2009
“The Love Decoy” begins in a packed classroom at the Tunafish College for Women. Dolores Hornbostel has just heard from Ivy Nudnick that Professor Gompers, the regular instructor, is ill and that Russell Gipf will be substituting for him. This news sends Dolores into a nostalgic reverie. She recalls going, on a previous autumn afternoon, to Professor Gipf's office to discuss an essay that she had written. Mr. Gipf, it seems, although confiding in her, provocatively, that he was studying dirty limericks for his doctoral thesis, failed to make the “usual indecent...
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