The House of God

by Samuel Shem

We followed Jo as she marched out of the room with that fanaticism known only to an overachiever, one who lives with the eternal fear that some lurking underachiever will, in a flash of brilliance, achieve more.

Jo’s lecture on Anna was crisp, complete, coherent, and cohesive. She finished, looking as if she’d just had a satisfying bowel movement.

The anus is a great curiosity to almost all mankind. Everyone would like to see it, but no one can. Like darkest Africa before the missionaries. The Congo of the body.’

‘You know what they say: It’s better to have dyspareuned than never to have pareuned at all.’

Yet each soothing answer was cotton candy, ’cause after it was, it wasn’t.