Book

Vox

Nicholson Baker · 1992

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What this book knows

Two strangers on a phone-sex line discover that desire lives in language as much as in bodies, and that intimacy can be built entirely from words.

Sex: Primary
Work: Present
Learning: Absent
Religion: Absent

desireintimacyembodiment

desire

I find that beautiful clitoris, and I move over it with my tongue, and then when I've found it I close my mouth and sort of burrow my way into you.
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When I'm in that mood I don't want to exist — a man is a watcher and a watcher disturbs the purity of the event.
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intimacy

I need this. I'd spend twenty dollars a minute for this. And there isn't a time limit on this line, either.
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Call me soon. In fact, call me in a few hours, after you've topped yourself off in the shower. You know me too well.
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embodiment

I read it all through very fast, to find out exactly what happens and locate the spot where I'm going to want to be coming.
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I'd tighten my thigh muscle where your pussy was pressing down on it and feel your wetness slide against me.
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Illuminates

6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis

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