Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Good lord. One of the blogs I read quoted this today:
From John Updike's Brazil:
"Standing with her [Isabel] in the warming waterfall, soaping her skin so its yielding silk was overlaid with a white grease, and then letting her soap him [Tristão] in turn, he felt his cashew become a banana, and then a rippled yam, bursting with weight."
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What the fuck?
I think the world has run out of penis metaphors.
Apparently.
Oh, dear.
I'm pretty horrified that "bursting" is used as a descriptive before they actually get to the sex, let alone finish it. Sounds painful.
I wonder how he felt about being described as a cashew. "The water's very cold!"
"I WAS IN THE POOL!"
Probably had to pick from native nuts (insert puns here.)
Are cashews native to Brazil? I mean, brazil nuts?
Anybody here read the Lou Gehrig biography, Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig?
Let us say that, despite the uninspired title, it is a bit of a waterworks.