The Whore of Mensa
by Woody Allen
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At a glance:
- Author: Woody Allen
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: New York
- Characters: Kaiser Lupowitz, Word Babcock, Flossie, Sherry
- Genres: Short fiction, Parody
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, Literature, Detectives, Comedy, Private investigators, Pretensions
- Locales: United States, New York, North America
The Story
Kaiser Lupowitz, a New York private detective, is hired by Word Babcock to thwart a blackmail scheme. Babcock, who builds and services joy buzzers, considers himself an intellectual but does not find his wife intellectually stimulating: “She won’t discuss Pound with me. Or Eliot. I didn’t know that when I married her.” He hears about a call-girl service providing female college students who will discuss intellectual matters for a fee, and he becomes a regular customer. Flossie, the madam, wants ten thousand dollars, or else she will turn over to his wife tapes...
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