V-2 - Chapter 9 - More voluptuous than fat

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 20:05:54 CDT 2010


also, GR p399
"raises his ass and does a few feeble bicycle exercises, then lies
slapping on new flab that must've collected on his stomach while he
was out.  There is an invisible kingdom of flab, a million
cells-at-large, and they all know who he is - soon as he's
unconscious, they start up, every one, piping in high horrible little
Mickey Mouse voices, hey fellas!  hey c'mon, let's all go over to
Slothrop's, the big sap ain't doing anything but laying on his ass,
c'mon, oboy!"



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