atddta 32: terrific dirt

[rich]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:15 AM, grladams at teleport.com
<grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
>
>  "Oh it's terrific dirt," she informed him between kisses, "feels good,
>  smells good...look at all these peppers here, they love it...it'll wash
>  out, why are you even...oh, Kit..."
>   Who by now, his pants down and his shoes still on, had entered, and
>  reentrered, and so forth, and the cycle, now exclusively theirs, wet, high,
>  and headlong, whirled away from time as other less-urgent lovers might have
>  known it, until presently, calm for the moment, refusing ever to uncouple,
>  they lay in warm semirefuge from the midday sun, in the light and shade
>  between the rows of low plants and the smell of the earth."
>  --------------------------
is this not the counterpart to the slothrop scene in bed with
Darlene?, post-coitus, still uncoupled, when a rocket explodes, in
grim and dark London?

Rich