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From: Mat <mmtwassel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: {ASS} This Week's Quiz: Sex Metaphors and Death in Fiction
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:54:32 -0800
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On Dec 22, 1:26 pm, Mat <mmtwas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This Week's Quiz: Sex Metaphors and Incidental Deaths in Fiction
>
> 1. You know the cliches. "They were fucking like bunnies."
> "Her ice cream cone breasts were like heat-seeking missiles." "Her
> white hot honeypot was like a volcano about to erupt." It's time for
> some new sexual similes. Share a few with us.
>
> 2. I've just started reading Salley Vickers' Instances of the Number
> 3.
> Apparently it's about the relationship between the wife and mistress
> of Peter Hansome. Here is the beginning of Chapter Two:
>
> Peter was sixty-two when he died. A truck driver,
> in an October fog, leaning to adjust the volume on
> his tape of Elvis Presley's Greatest Hits, took his eye
> from the road, failed to see a car coming up on the
> run into the Hogarth roundabout, swerved to avoid
> the car and, instead, hit Peter's BMW, broadside. This,
> not fatal in itself, had the result that the BMW was
> swung around in the path of a speeding Mercedes.
> The driver of the truck was shaken, the driver of the
> Mercedes damaged his arm, but Peter's neck was
> broken in the ensuing crash.
>
> Does it seem to you that automobile crashes are the MO of choice for
> a novelist who needs to kill off a healthy character? As car crashes
> go,
> this one gets a fair amount of detail. We learn quite a bit about the
> truck driver, for instance. But we don't learn whether he's adjusting
> the
> volume of his Elvis Presley tape up or down. I'm leaning towards
> down,
> but I'm just not sure.
>
> Do you think the truck driver was adjusting the volume up? Or down?
> Why?
For #1 how about:
Their fuck was like the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Mighty
Mississippi.
Or:
She sucked him like a popsicle stick sucking a cherry popsicle.
--Mat