Last night I found this passage in Steve Pinker’s “The Language Instinct”: “In Woody Allen’s story ‘The Whore of Mensa,’ the patron asks, ‘Suppose I wanted Noam Chomsky explained to me by two girls?’ ‘It’d cost you,’ she replies.”
It compelled me to run to HMV, Orchard, to get the movie. It didn’t have it. So instead I bought two other Woody Allen movies, “A Midnight Summer’s Sex Comedy” and “Manhattan Murder Mystery.” Tonight, I found out that “The Whore of Mensa” is not a movie. It is a short story by Allen. A story, Pinker had already told me. But somehow I thought it must be a movie. Okay, I enjoyed the two movies.
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