http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:43:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39076 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39076#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:43:15 +0000 josh_speed http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39076 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39076/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39023 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39023#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:42:39 +0000 spanish bombs http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39023 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39023/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39017 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39017#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:36:47 +0000 iplaudius http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39017 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39017/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39009 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39009#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:31:15 +0000 HiredGoons http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39009 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39009/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39008 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39008#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:30:31 +0000 HiredGoons http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39008 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39008/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39004 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39004#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:22:30 +0000 iplaudius http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39004 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-39004/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38997 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38997#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:10:14 +0000 GiovanniGF http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38997 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38997/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38995 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38995#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:05:19 +0000 NotAndersonCooper http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38995 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38995/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38989 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38989#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:53:16 +0000 SarahHeartburn http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38989 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38989/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38983 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38983#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:45:04 +0000 atipofthehat http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38983 Poor Toy's Complaint: Within the deep hot sweetness thus established and well on its way to the ultimate convulsion, I felt I could slow down in order to prolong the glow. Lolita had been safely solipsized. The implied sun pulsated in the supplied poplars; we were fantastically and divinely alone; I watched her, rosy, gold-dusted, beyond the veil of my controlled delight, unaware of it, alien to it, and the sun was on her lips, and her lips were apparently still forming the words of the Carmen-barmen ditty that no longer reached my consciousness. Everything was now ready. The nerves of pleasure had been laid bare. The corpuscles of Krause were entering the phase of frenzy. The least pressure would suffice to set all paradise loose. I had ceased to be Humbert the Hound, the sad-eyed degenerate cur clasping the boot that would presently kick him away. I was above the tribulations of ridicule, beyond the possibilities of retribution. In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the movement of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves. Suspended on the brink of that voluptuous abyss (a nicety of physiological equipoise comparable to certain techniques in the arts) I kept repeating chance words after her--barmen, alarmin', my charmin', my carmen, ahmen, ahahamen--as one talking and laughing in his sleep while my happy hand crept up her sunny leg as far as the shadow of decency allowed.]]> Poor Toy's Complaint: Within the deep hot sweetness thus established and well on its way to the ultimate convulsion, I felt I could slow down in order to prolong the glow. Lolita had been safely solipsized. The implied sun pulsated in the supplied poplars; we were fantastically and divinely alone; I watched her, rosy, gold-dusted, beyond the veil of my controlled delight, unaware of it, alien to it, and the sun was on her lips, and her lips were apparently still forming the words of the Carmen-barmen ditty that no longer reached my consciousness. Everything was now ready. The nerves of pleasure had been laid bare. The corpuscles of Krause were entering the phase of frenzy. The least pressure would suffice to set all paradise loose. I had ceased to be Humbert the Hound, the sad-eyed degenerate cur clasping the boot that would presently kick him away. I was above the tribulations of ridicule, beyond the possibilities of retribution. In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the movement of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves. Suspended on the brink of that voluptuous abyss (a nicety of physiological equipoise comparable to certain techniques in the arts) I kept repeating chance words after her--barmen, alarmin', my charmin', my carmen, ahmen, ahahamen--as one talking and laughing in his sleep while my happy hand crept up her sunny leg as far as the shadow of decency allowed.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38983/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38978 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38978#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:39:21 +0000 KarenUhOh http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38978 Simon Called Peter, But Peter Hung Up]]> Simon Called Peter, But Peter Hung Up]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38978/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38976 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38976#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:36:03 +0000 mathnet http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38976 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38976/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38975 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38975#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:35:19 +0000 mathnet http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38975 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/roths-bad-sex#comment-38975/feed 0