SLSL "TSR" Swamp Wench

Scott Badger lupine at ncia.net
Mon Dec 2 19:41:43 CST 2002


Doug:
> Whatever else she may be, and no matter how others may
> look down on her in the story, Buttercup seems to be
> alive and able to enjoy her sexuality in a way that
> Levine isn't.

Does she? Levine and Buttercup both seem to enjoy the fore-banter, but while
he simply goes through the motions, in that cabin called home, isn't there
at least a bit of depravity in her "whimpering" from the mattress? An
addict's craving for what no longer stimulates (transmarginal??)? Or maybe
she's just thumbing a ride up out of the swamp....too bad for her that
Levine, the plowboy college-boy, is going native.

Scott Badger





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