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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2008-03-26 07:10 am
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Literary Challenge

David Lodge claims, in Author, Author, that Queer Theorists purport to have identified an extended metaphor for anal fisting in Henry James' introduction to the revised New York edition of his works. I would be fascinated to read a description of anal fisting in the rather orotund style of the late Mr. James. I lack the dexterity to write sentences of over one hundred words so the challenge is all yours...

(nods to [livejournal.com profile] dyddgu who inspired the thought).

[identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com 2008-03-26 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Now I'm starting to imagine the extended compare-and-contrast: anal fisting by James, next to vaginal fisting by, oh, I'm out of my league here.

Hm.
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2008-03-26 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Snowballing in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion? Or is that too obvious?