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Rick Moody · 1994
Sequence ladder
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Suburban 1970s America dissolves into shame and erotic failure; the ice storm exposes what affluence and propriety cannot contain.
shame
The garter belt was an empty snakeskin, a stately and somber artifact of his failure, a sort of Shroud of Turin.
ISN-006Imperiously, Janey Williams had strode from the guest room. It was the bum note in the sweet song of this tryst.
ISN-007The shame and resourcefulness of the masturbator coming into his craft! No fabric or substance was beyond being tested.
ISN-010desire
His ecstasy was religious. The best orgasms were characterized not by joy but by earthly loss and the desire to fortify himself against it.
ISN-001It felt like a salamander scampering across her. Then the door at the top of the stairs opened. That splendid bad news!
ISN-004erotic-as-power
Like so many reasonable ideas that seem less bright in harsh illumination, the key party was exported to this land of tidy shrubs and the Junior League.
ISN-011Illuminates
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