Every Top Is A Bottom! Bless consumer choice.
(spotted by the keen eye of Titus Rochelle)
(trying to get Troll's hideous image farther down on the page!)
He was also frightened of invertebrates, marine life in general, temperatures below freezing, fat people, people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments, caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats, dogs, the New England countryside, New York City, fungi and molds, viscous substances, medical experiments, dreams, brittle textures, gelatinous textures, the color gray, plant life of diverse sorts, memory lapses, old books, heredity, mists, gases, whistling, whispering—the things that did not frighten him would probably make a shorter list.
-Luc Sante on H.P. Lovecraft (a rhapsodically fearful classic for Stormy)
"It is not uncommon to find blood in a pen and around the mouths of pigs but with no obvious prolapse in any other animals, i.e. the prolapse will have been completely chewed off."
And then there is this...
CASE REPORTS
Pig Bite of Prolapsed Rectum in a Child
By A.N. Gangopadhyay, D.K. Gupta, Amit Dhulkotia, Ashwin V. Apte, and S.P. Sharma
Varanasi, India
STRAY PIGS are a menace in rural areas of poor countries in which pig rearing is a common occupation. However, pig bites to humans are rare, and a bite to the perineum has not been reported. A very unusual incident in which a pig bit a prolapsed rectum while the child was defecating is being reported.
What is imagined to be going on just beneath the surface here...
Give it up for Titus Rochelle, people!
(btw, Taxi'ers, looking through the list of potential labels I can apply to this post makes me want to die. good work, guys!)
Perhaps it is only in lovemaking that there is interaction between unmediated human bodies -- though even here the extra-somatic usually plays a role too.
Here I imagine that reference is being made to this--and I shudder.