Gills Flapping · 28 March 2001
From the forthcoming Fraud, by the frighteningly droll ex-Canadian David Rakoff, contributor to the largely likeable This American Life, and to the sporadically likeable Modern Humorist.
This part of the book is on Rakoff’s journey out of Manhattan to New England to climb a mountain – more of a hillock, really – and his ill ease (“if only the mist would part to reveal a beautiful, beautiful parking lot, I will get through this”) with the guy’s guys who accompany him on the trip:
Later, Larry asks us: “Hey, what’s the difference between oral sex and anal sex? Oral sex’ll make your whole day and anal sex’ll make your whole week.”
I was amazed. This is not really much of a joke at all, more of an observation, I think, and I find its relaxed, surprisingly positive attitude toward anal penetration a complete eye-opener.
“I don’t get it,” says one friend.
“It’ll make your hole weak. Your H-O-L-E W-E-A-K. Get it?”
Oh. Good thing I didn’t call forth with a hearty “I’ll say it will!”
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