I've not a clue what was going on in her head. Actually, I think the liberation of women is the most exciting human development in my lifetime. The leftist critiques of the Wulf were pretty amazing. Our understanding of the poem is 100 years out of date. There is no good and evil, no hero, no monsters. We fail to grasp the essential humanity of Grendel's mother. (Yeah, she only slew Aeschere because she loved her baby.) In any case, the complaints immensely amused the head of literature at Longman, who is such a red-necked barbarian that he hunts with Murphy and Gwynn. When I asked Wilbur what he thought of Logan's infamous review of Mayflies, he smiled and said, "He has his readers. I have mine."
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