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orgone,
esoteric—astrology,
frottage,
clearly some of the old hags had succeeded in reproducing after
Contrexéville:
tellurian
He still had the same desires, with the knowledge that he probably could never satisfy them.
“Talking to morons like that is like pissing in a urinal full of cigarette butts, like shitting in a toilet full of Tampax: nothing gets flushed, and everything starts to stink.”
The Six Companions and the Gloved Man,
tottering as it were between the vaginas.
concentrated on the gentle world barely a meter away within the Catholic’s pubic hair.
needle-dick
“stick his knob in any available hole.”
Rhenish
cabal
inveigle
What conclusions could he draw from such things? How should he interpret these comings and goings? It was puzzling.
something that could be lived as a collection of small, endlessly repeated rituals.
One thing seemed clear to him: no one knew how to live anymore.
ACT UP
Television gave lessons in dignity, especially TF1. As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.
without points of reference, a man melts away.
Hmmmm
Bruno had never seriously thought about death and was beginning to wonder if he ever would.
particular, he would continue his quest for the ultimate pleasure to the end; one last indulgence. However transitory, a good blow-job was a real pleasure
This life was so well organized, on such a human scale; happiness could be found in this; had he wanted for more, he wouldn’t have known where to find
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE.”
Bruno Masure
It was all so distressingly banal.
Djerzinski
Michel
Either the hidden properties which governed the behavior of subatomic particles were nonlocal—meaning they could instantaneously influence one another at an arbitrary distance—or else the very notion of particles having intrinsic properties in the absence of observation had to be abandoned.
unless one adopted a radical positivism and contented oneself with developing a mathematical formalism which predicted the observable and gave up on any idea of an underlying reality.
Reality
“Experimental Realization of Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Gedankexperiment: A New Violation of Bell’s Inequalities”—was published in issue 48 of the Physical Review.
analysis of gene mutations; and that this was probably related to phenomena at the atomic level.
quantum mechanics.
kilims,
Alicia Marcia-Coelho
he was surprised to discover that he could get a hard-on and even ejaculate inside the researcher’s vagina without feeling the slightest pleasure.
Death is the great leveler.
was here that Bruno sat, leaning against the wall. He began to feel well. As a schoolboy, he would often sit on a step between floors just after class began; these were his rare moments of happiness.
Slowly, by degrees, his spirit filled to a state of nothingness, the sheer joy that comes of not being part of the world.
the first time since he was thirteen, Bruno was almost happy.
Sexual frustration in the human male manifests itself as a violent contraction in the lower abdomen as the sperm seems to back up, and pangs shoot toward the chest.
He had been carrying condoms around for years and had never used one of them—after all, whores always had their own.
Before he had time to touch himself, Bruno came violently onto his T-shirt. He let out a moan and rolled over on the sand. It was done.
small man still seems to me to be a man, he wrote, whereas a small woman appears to me to belong to a new type of animal.
there never was real sexual liberation—just another form of seduction.”
His whole body shuddered with happiness.
He closed his eyes, his body shuddering in ecstasy.
He howled as he came. He had never felt such fulfillment in his life.
Full moon
