tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post8757203946296894277..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Her Unusual DesiresBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-20725512384776087912009-07-10T20:49:48.342+00:002009-07-10T20:49:48.342+00:00It's not the unusual desires that are for me t...It's not the unusual desires that are for me the focus but that nonchalant flick of the loins. Makes it worth being a man, just the aspirationRichard Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005416556432927671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-54006084396538448222009-07-10T15:29:52.769+00:002009-07-10T15:29:52.769+00:00I suppose one of the signs of middle age is that o...I suppose one of the signs of middle age is that one finds oneself dwelling more on the challenge of satisfying usual desires than unusual ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-79499165607203974832009-07-10T11:52:39.547+00:002009-07-10T11:52:39.547+00:00It made me laugh too until I discovered that I was...It made me laugh too until I discovered that I was distantly related o the baboon in question. Sc**w you Appleyard. I'm now going to console myself by looking for someone to satisfy my unusual desires. So there!!!!!!!!!circus monkeyhttp://circusmonkeysmirror.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-23273154144421635342009-07-09T15:44:10.011+00:002009-07-09T15:44:10.011+00:00Your older fans may remember that in the early sev...Your older fans may remember that in the early seventies a group of popular writers decided to write a Jacqueline Susann sort of bodice-ripper. The deal was that the book was to be presented to the publisher under a pseudonym as serious, but the writing was to be as bad as possible. It was called "Naked Came the Stranger" and it was a best-seller for a couple of months until the joke Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-46389687633829081532009-07-09T11:43:36.667+00:002009-07-09T11:43:36.667+00:00That is rather good actually.That is rather good actually.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-4636099117350280042009-07-09T09:24:32.375+00:002009-07-09T09:24:32.375+00:00"At the striking of noon on a certain fifth o..."At the striking of noon on a certain fifth of March, there occurred within a certain causal radius of Brandon railway-station and yet beyond the deepest pools of emptiness between the uttermost stellar system one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause which always occur when an exceptional stir of heightened consciousness agitates any living organism in jonathan lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986943428040953041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-40530854653381503532009-07-09T08:22:25.219+00:002009-07-09T08:22:25.219+00:00Brilliant (yours, not theirs. The 'winners'...Brilliant (yours, not theirs. The 'winners' are too long. Martin Amis writes whole books comprising lines like that, but somehow it works for him).<br /><br />I've always wanted to use this line:<br /><br /><i>A deep and faceless fear gripped him from a place whereof he knew not; he shrugged, and laughed in its face.</i>Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.com