Laughing....too...hard....

OK, there are many, many things I could say here, but I'll stick to one pet peeve, nothing specifically to do with The Sex:

desire reigned in

Sometimes I feel like the only person left who knows the difference between "reign" and "rein."

Dana, is this the from the author I'm thinking of right now?

You betcha. Nobody does it better.

Please tell me that these were written to be funny on purpose.

Nope. She's got a cadre of adoring fans who apparently find this stuff arousing.

desire reigned in

Well, see, there was this coup, and at the end of it desire came through and, like, totally reigned!

Nobody does it better.

I find this oddly reassuring, because I have a hard time imagining anyone else being so... terrifyingly imaginative.

Yeah, she's got a special gift. I think it involves judicious use of a thesaurus.

judicious use of a thesaurus

I was just about to suggest someone take her thesaurus away. Spade a spade, woman! Plus...

...she actually used the phrase, "heaving bosom."

I have no words.

This one time (not at band camp) she got all pissed at someone who questioned her use of the word "belletristic."

So, that would be more along the lines of injudicious use of a thesaurus, yeah?

Or slapdash, careless, imprudent, casual, slipshod, reckless, lackadaisical, hasty....

On a totally unrelated sideline, I once heard a very funny radio sketch which involved Roget-- but not Roget as the biographies portray him: this Roget was obssesed with sex. Each sentance would start out normally, "I was walking down the road..." go into a list of alternatives, "lane, alleyway," and end up with something porny, "passage, back passage, entrance, opening, hole, vagina..."

Okay, so that wasn't a great example. But it was a very Buffista sketch, in many ways, and I'm sorry I don't own a copy on tape. t /tangent

I've no clue what "belletristic" means. None.