But I am too sick to explain this meme for which the Palinode has tagged me. Please go read the rules on his page.
Now it’s time [for me] to stop coughing up brown stuff and reach out for the nearest book. Which is…
…Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin. Hoo boy! Have you read it? Life-changing, I tell you.
Here’s page 123, sentences 6,7,8:
It had been a heavy, strong leather belt with a silver buckle but was now so completely worn that it looked about to tear. The tip of it was frayed. The places where the buckle fastened were almost as thin as a piece of cloth.
Hmm. I don’t know if I feel relieved or disappointed by this result. Pretty much anywhere else you land on that page is pornographic. I was ready to quote those passages to you, if they happened to be sentences six through eight. I was steeling myself for it. Anticipating it. But destiny had other plans for me (and you). So if you want to read the dirty parts, you’ll have to go out and find the book yourself.
I’m tagging:
Knights Who Writes
Pirate Dog PDX
Life Is…
Gasoline Hobo
One Proud Gemini (when he brings back his blog someday)
I can’t believe you managed to find six lines that aren’t even suggestive in Delta of Venus!
Funny you should say that, I was thinking those lines could be read as a metaphor for impending impotence (perhaps Henry’s?).
Page 123 of the book closest to moi at this moment?
On it.
Impotence metaphore, eh?
“The tip of it was frayed.”
Ew.
What kind of writer misspells “metaphor,” anyway? Gawd!
Speling need not be correcte in the comments section.
My tip is a bit frayed- happens after age 50, you know.