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sidered as 'the totality of the mani–
festation of the person'."
It is a cheap shot at a necessary
acknowledgment to Sartre's peer to
publish only a couple of paragraphs
on de Beauvoir and fifteen pages on
Jean-Paul Sartre in the very same
Issue.
Finaliy, I argue that Lionel
Abel did not read
The Second Sex.
Pauline Facciano-Portuguez
Berkeley, California
Lionel Abel replies:
I admit to having written pro–
vocatively about Simone de Beau–
voir, and from Ms. Pauline Facciano–
Portuguez's letter, I seem to have
drawn blood.
But I must insist here that I
knew Simone well, translated her,
wrote in her favor, liked her a lot,
and read
The Second Sex
in Paris, as it
appeared in
Les temps modemes.
In
answer to Facciano-Portuguez's sug–
gestion that I did not read it at ali, I
shall again rely on a line from Mil–
ton, whom I am still reading with
PARTISAN REVIEW
pleasure even though he is being
charged with sexism. The line from
Paradise Lost
is Lucifer's reply to an
angel dispatched by the Lord (who
was against a summit with the Em–
pire of Evil): "Not to know me ar–
gues thyself unknown."
Lionel Abel
New York, New York
To the Editor:
Your readers may be confused
about the authorship of the poem,
"The Queen of the Metropolitan
Museum"
(PR
4, 1986), printed un–
der the name of David Shapiro.
Since 1965, I have published many
books under that name, some vol–
umes of poetry, but I am not the au–
thor of that poem. I have spoken to
the author of the poem, who informs
me that his name is David Harry
Shapiro, born 1942, and that it is
his first published poem. Bibliogra–
phers, beware.
David Joel Shapiro
Bronx, NY
