Yup, wanna write “the great novel? Start out with some lame plot, narrate the protagonist’s off-plot sexual fantasies, throw in some more lame sub-plot feeders, throw in some off-plot sexual tensions, add some off-plot dislike of traditional society, followed with more off-plot sexual fantasies and finally off-plot sex. It doesn’t matter whether or not you wrap up the flimsy plot. After all the sex nothing else matters.

Lather, rinse, repeat. . . you’re now a great novelist.

Go read “the crying of lot 49" or “a portrait of the artist as a young man” to see what I mean.