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Grosser, in fact, than men.
She leans into the gentle friction of it.
Wolf identifies the trap and then almost always leaps over it.
Sometimes she does it by presenting the most succinct, incisive version of some well-trodden territory.
What are we talking about here?, Wolf imagines the husband asking.
Like a mid-size Japanese?
She couldve pulled that metaphor further, sure.
She couldve leaned on it and stretched it.
There are also some brushes with the comedy equivalent of new standards.
But I wonder if the impact of it is different than what Wolf imagines it might be.
Aside from the material on her own abortion, though, little of it is actually daring in content.
Instead, its closer to the experience of watching a truly talented musician do covers of hit records.
The pleasure is not in the experience of witnessing the shock of the new.
But theres something to be said for thoroughly crushing the classics.
