Favourite prose excerpts
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Your favourite prose excerpts? I'll start.
>What we need, of course, is a language which will allow us to distinguish the normal or routine fuck from the glorious, the rare, or the lousy one - a fack from a fick, a fick from a fock - but we have more names for parts of horses than we have for kinds of kisses, and our earthy words are all ... well ... 'dirty'. It says something dirty about us, no doubt, because in a society which had a mind for the body and other similarly vital things, there would be a word for coming down, or going up, words for nibbles on the bias, earlobe loving, and every variety of tongue track. After all, how many kinds of birds do we distinguish? We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming. In fact our entire vocabulary for states of consciousness is critically impoverished.
>>8061949
Interesting. Is that Gass? Any recs for a first time reader?
>>8061949
A true master of prose, remiscent of Joyce.
Did Gass write for Vogue or something?
>>8061949
this was exactly what I wanted to be reading right now
I started reading On Being Blue yesterday. Pretty interesting.
