Word: nicolas
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...most gifted novelists of his generation, Amis demonstrates that he is also among the cleverest. He writes about a writer who is writing a murder story about a crime that has not yet happened but is being staged by the victim. The designation is used advisedly. Nicola Six may get her head bashed in at the end of the book, yet she remains a good candidate for the most willful and neutering female ever devised...
More to the point, Nicola is an elaborate composition of male sexual / fantasies and fears. In the days of traditional humanist metaphors, she would have been likened to a siren or destructive goddess. Fast-forwarding to the quantum age, Amis associates Ms. Six with -- yes, folks -- a black hole...