yet another must-read
Jan. 23rd, 2009 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realthogTo those who're still upset about the frogs, a welcome retreat into the balmy territory of high literature. Thanks to the BBC's Newsnight for alerting me to this latest tour de force:
And then some very sticky moments. Wetlands is a first novel which has sold half a million copies since its publication in Germany. Written by the High Wycombe-born star of German TV Charlotte Roche, and now out in English, it is a voyage around her 18-year-old character's private parts. Throughout the story Helen prods, pokes, smells and inserts implements into her nether regions in her hospital room where she is recovering from a serious accident after shaving around her haemorrhoids. Is it porn, or a feminist tract?
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fledgist has found a short translated passage from this masterpiece online. This is far too significant a discovery to be buried among the comments -- hence this update. Thanks, F!
IMPORTANT UPDATE: As he notes in the comments,
fledgist has found a short translated passage from this masterpiece online. This is far too significant a discovery to be buried among the comments -- hence this update. Thanks, F!
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Date: 2009-01-23 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 07:58 pm (UTC)Yes, it does look good, doesn't it? It's solved about half my this year's Christmas list.
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Date: 2009-01-23 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-24 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 08:18 pm (UTC)Sounds like a title I'd write.Wow. Just...another of those titles we won't be carrying in the shop...no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 10:02 pm (UTC)"Anything they film from it will go straight to DVD."
There's got to be a "straight down the toilet" joke around here somewhere . . .
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Date: 2009-01-23 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 10:08 pm (UTC)"Just...another of those titles we won't be carrying in the shop..."
Don't you think stocking it might attract a better class of customer?
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Date: 2009-01-23 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 10:38 pm (UTC)I didn't think it did. I meant what I said. To judge by the customers you describe . . .
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Date: 2009-01-23 10:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 11:21 pm (UTC)And hemorrhoid shavers. Let them not be forgotten.
Hm. However hard we might try . . .
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Date: 2009-01-24 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 10:07 pm (UTC)Your asma is everybody's asma, S.T., but perhaps you could explain a little more?
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Date: 2009-01-24 12:30 am (UTC)Hemorrhoid shavers . . . I can now die.
Have you ever wondered why the words "hemorrhoid" and "diarrhea" are spelled with two Rs? And why is it that both words have something to do with the rectum?
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Date: 2009-01-24 12:48 am (UTC)It's going to be a bit difficult for me to eat cauliflower for the next week or so. That's all I'll say.
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Date: 2009-01-24 01:19 am (UTC)Excellent, Holmes! I've amended the main entry with this additional info.
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Date: 2009-01-24 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-24 02:06 am (UTC)Oh, I dunno. Something of a conversation-starter at dinner parties, doncha think?
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Date: 2009-01-24 02:09 am (UTC)For a must read, consider:
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Date: 2009-01-24 05:54 pm (UTC)But also, I wanted to congrutulate you on this, the best LJ tag ever: "even i'm a big unsettled by this one."
Cheers!