Overnight: Jack Holland's Misogyny, the World's oldest Prejudice. I guess maybe I am a speed reader when it comes to reading horrors, like Albigensian Crusades, and Bohemian "witch" trials, and unspeakable Nazi practises, so fast they almost don't register. Still, I did read it, every bit of it, and I doubt if I can ever again quite so glibly call myself "misogynist," if that's what misogyny is taken to be. On the other hand, also last night, I skimmed a critical analysis of the ghastly dull, repetitive sort of female literature called the "Gothic novel," and, while I agree that the writers and readers of such trash hardly deserve to be tortured to death, I don't, can't believe that they're my full intellectual equals--sorry.