I Was a Teenage Dwarf Author:Max Shulman I'M DOBIE GILLIS. All my life I have spun in a wild tarantella of unappeased longing -- from girl to girl to girl. Yet due to an excessive lack of height (often mistaken for lack of manliness or sex-drive), I have always had what some people (also mistaken) call perfect love -- all despair and no fulfillment. Still I go on trying... — Now thi... more »s cat is hip. A typical Shulman character. They're all after the same THING. They'd all rather snap in the struggle than face the shame and desolation of failure. If you are a romantic misfit, wipe the dust off your love-life, read Max Shulman, and get with it« less