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'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

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I believe the remark is intended to be humorous (using bathos), contrasting a slimy food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure to the small number of people who like oysters, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx (who may have known of Thurber's joke), borrowed from Rudyard Kipling: 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

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I believe the remark is intended to be humorous (using bathos), contrasting a slimy food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure to the small number of people who like oysters, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx (who may have known of Thurber's joke): 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

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I believe the remark is intended to be humorous (using bathos), contrasting a slimy food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure to the small number of people who like oysters, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx, borrowed from Rudyard Kipling: 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

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'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

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I believe the remark is intended to be humorous;humorous (using bathos), contrasting a repulsively slimy type of food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure to the small number of people who like oysters, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx (who may have known of Thurber's joke): 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

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I believe the remark is intended to be humorous; contrasting a repulsively slimy type of food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx (who may have known of Thurber's joke): 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

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I believe the remark is intended to be humorous (using bathos), contrasting a slimy food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure to the small number of people who like oysters, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx (who may have known of Thurber's joke): 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

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'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

enter image description here

I believe the remark is intended to be humorous; contrasting a repulsively slimy type of food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx (who may have known of Thurber's joke): 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

'Glup' seems to be a Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

enter image description here

'Glup' seems to be a (possibly) Thurber-invented term meaning roughly 'slimy, jelly-like material', similar to guck.

enter image description here

I believe the remark is intended to be humorous; contrasting a repulsively slimy type of food, offering a small amount of transitory pleasure, with the much more fulfilling possibilities offered by interaction with a woman. Presumably the remark was written to be understood from a traditional sexist male viewpoint. To be contasted with the similar rather misogynistic remark by Groucho Marx (who may have known of Thurber's joke): 'a woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke'.

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