The limp prick is “the ultimate sexist put-down” (Fear of Flying, 90). Impotence, the inability to “keep it up”, Bond continually ridicules gadget man Q, comes with old age, the waning of years and masculine strength. Men are failures in bed if they can’t get it up. In our quotidian thoughts, a failure in bed […]
There are two kinds of beggars out there.
The man crouching with legs flayed, leaning back on ashy crutches and scarred clothing extends his hand for help. When he receives it, he gives thanks, pressing the coins to his head with wrinkled hands in a prayer.
The insolent child, marches up overstating the pitiful act of bringing […]
They come rolling out when the sun sets; by nine or ten dozens of them line the central stretch of Main Bazaar. They fry potato cubes on black iron plates in puddles of oil, piling the fried bits in a planetary ring around greasy Saturn. For 10 rupes they’ll salt, spice, and adorn with a […]
“It was their hypocrisy I abhorred. At least if they had come out openly and said: We loved Hitler, one might have weighed their humanity with their honesty and perhaps forgiven them.” (Fear of Flying, 61)
The ridiculous state of tension between Japan and China these days - the “protests” in China staged with tacit government […]
Yes, I’m completely rewriting this post. No, I have no guilt over doing so.
Figured out how to get a working <code> replacement tag, given that the code tag doesn’t handle newlines nicely and doesn’t color the background the way I want. I added the following to wp-content/themes/default/style.css:
pre.code {
margin: 15px 10px […]
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