John Simon (critic)

John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American writer and literary, theater, and film critic. Quotes There is an old anecdote about a husband who, tied up, has to watch his wife being raped. When the assailant has fled, she unties her husband who promptly slaps her face. When she cries out in protest that she was overpowered, and could not help being raped, the husband retorts, "Yes, but you could have helped enjoying it." "Theatre Chronicle" [Review of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee], in The Hudson Review, vol. 15, no. 4 (Fall 1962), p. 572. Reprinted in Acid Test (New York: Stein and Day, 1963), p. 180 External links