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Four Mammals Contemplating Sex
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is the author of seven books, most recently A Hologram for the King. He is founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publisher based in San Francisco, and co-founder of 826 Valencia, a non-profit writing and tutoring centre for youth.
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‘She kneels on the floor and takes it in her mouth again. He’s looking at the top of her head, at the roots of her hair where the blonde, he now sees, is slightly mixed with grey.’
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‘They couldn’t put their finger on exactly what it was they craved, but they knew it was very different to what they had.’
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‘We decided then to tell each other exactly how a typical fuck played out in our marriages. We couldn’t believe we’d never done this before.’
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‘Whatever porn is or is not, like dance it is rooted in the body.’
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