make a meal of the sexual innuendo
"Make a Meal of the Sexual Innuendo," March 27, 2022 (#86)
title from episode 40 of The Kingcast, "Christine with Bryan Fuller" (2020)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
The Dog of the Marriage: Stories by Amy Hempel (2005)
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (1987)
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White (1970)
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (2013)
Storm of the Century by Stephen King (1999)
Make a Meal of the Sexual Innuendo
If it’s a piece of ass you’re after fatso, I’m damn sure
he sometimes followed me into the house where I kept a box
at his beard, makes me itchy. Obstat, sit down, you’re getting
the female of his desiring, pays no attention to him. It's just as I predicted:
it isn't hard. That's what's so awful about it. Once I actually got it, it was
against your grain, but you're gonna have to let me handle this.
I think we had better wait and see. Too bad there's a
refined particularity of our actions, and the declarative nature of
you’re going to have to fill me in sometime, I’m dying to
think of any more reasons for not letting the swan have a
patch of ice at the same instant the car coming toward us hit
instead of sneaking up behind him and bashing his brains in,
because you disgust me with your lipstick teeth, and your dirty
same cut over and over on both sides--"Jesus is Waiting," by the
place. Whatever interactions she might choose to engage in,
it was hollow. Inside of it was a seat, like a bicycle seat,
overly committed to anything that isn't firmly in place.
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Still from Christine (1983).
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Eddie Cantor. From here.
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3-27-22, from Pearl by Tabitha King (1985).