exercise

literature

reading

Walt Whitman

working out

is to real sport as masturbation is to real sex

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around.

is an act of surrendering oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire in that the text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed... and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing.

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed... and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing David Lodge

is a writer who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

he laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

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