Wednesday, April 13, 2005

am i really seeing this?

pArEnTaL aDviSorY. this morning i had to be at the office to put out breakfast for an 8:00am investor meeting. which meant having to stop and buy the bagels, muffins, juice, milk etc. on my way to the office, allowing myself enough time, once i got here, to get it all set up and get the coffee made by about 7:50am, just in case this group showed up early. this is all really neither here nor there, just explains how i found myself crammed onto the f train at 7:12am and looking for a point of focus other than the extreme morning breath of the guy to my left and the staring issue of the man directly across from me, so i did what i too often do and turned my head to the side and down and began reading what the girl on my right was reading. it was one of those books that does not have the author printed at the top of one page and the title on the other. and i couldn't get a glimpse of the cover. so i was in the dark as to what it was i was about to read. she was at the beginning of a chapter, which was titled "1529", as in the year i assume. the chapter started with something about anne doing to percival everything she promised. percival? great, a historical novel was my first thought. it wasn't capturing my interest (why couldn't this stupid girl be reading something better?) so i looked over to the top of the next page only to find, much to my surprise, "i was his whore . . . when he would lie on his back, i would climb on top of him and kiss down from his mouth to his parts . . . then i would put him in my mouth and suck on it." ?!@??! this was no historical novel. this was historical smut. at 7 o'clock in the morning? isn't it a little early for that? i felt dirty and violated reading about oral sex, medieval oral sex at that, first thing in the morning, before i had even had a conversation with anyone. and to think, just a minute earlier i took one look at the year 1529 and the name percival and resented this girl, wishing she was reading something more interesting. i think i am supposed to be learning some sort of lesson here. like careful what you wish for. or don't judge a book by its cover. or don't read a book unless you've seen its cover - or at least its title.

2 Comments:

Blogger julia said...

well, a) it's about time
b) 18 it is.
c) into historical smut, are you?

3:57 PM  
Blogger julia said...

true. i guess i learned this morning that some things haven't changed much in the last 500 years. thanks anne & percival for the lesson.

4:35 PM  

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