An unexpected friendship? Was to me. And most/all? of the Plisters, I suggest

Sat Jan 25 11:53:48 UTC 2020

When I was contemplating cunnilingus tutorials in literature yesterday 
evening, an Asian classic came across my mind ...

This tantric Tamil poem stems from the late Middle Ages. Its title means 
TREATISE ON THE ARROW OF LUST, and the translation was done by Kamil 
Zvelebil.

* KAMAPANACASTIRAM

First Stage:

Like a cow which licks tenderly its calf
spread out your tongue broad
and lick her yoni
lapping up the juices oozing out
like a thirsty dog which laps cold water.

Second Stage:

Like a worshipper who circumambulates the shrine
pass your tongue over her yoni
round around from left to right,
moving in ever narrowing circles
till you reach the very centre.
Her yoni will open up
like a dark and gaping chasm.
Open then the vulva's lips
with firm pressure of your tongue
and insert its stiff tip inside
like a spear's powerful thrust,
digging, poking deep and far.

Third Stage:

With your nose pressing against the YONIMANI [clitoris]
your tongue enters her innermost shrine
thrusting and digging and piking deep.
Searching for hidden treasures inside.
Inhale deeply, breathing in the mellow odours
of the juices of her yoni.

Fourth Stage:

Taking the protruding, throbbing jewel of her yoni
gently, gently between your teeth and tongue,
suck it like a suckling feeding at the breast;
it will rise and glisten, stand up from its sheath.
It will swell like a large ruby.
The fragrant copious discharge
appearing like sweet foam
between the lips of the vulva
is a rejuvenating drink when mixed with your milk-white
lustrous, thick and fragrant sperm.*

Quoted after David Gordon White: Kiss of the Yogini. "Tantric Sex" in 
its South Asian Contexts. London 2003: The University of Chicago Press, 
pp. 74-75.

Am 23.01.20 um 14:10 schrieb Charles Albert:
> The Day of The Jackal was excellent pulp...
>
> Included a great cunnilingus tutorial, which one impressionable lad took to
> heart many decades ago.
>
> Thanks Fred....wherever you are.
>
>
> love,
>
> cfa
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 7:56 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> + ... "DEAR TOM GUINZBURG WHEREVER YOU ARE, I THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
>> KNOW I'M NUMBER EIGHT AND MY FRIEND FREDDIE IS NUMBER TWO."/ Pynchon was
>> referring to the fact that Frederick Forsyth's second thriller, THE
>> ODESSA FILE, was No. 2 on the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller list and
>> GRAVITY'S RAINBOW was No. 8 ... +
>>
>>
>> https://books.google.de/books?id=btgXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT127&lpg=PT127&dq=frederick+forsyth+pynchon&source=bl&ots=XzztUaCr-x&sig=ACfU3U2w-d_zdetjCnDUBZyOPsvwhe1IvA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB9fPp0ZTnAhVS4aQKHZaLBZQQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=frederick%20forsyth%20pynchon&f=fals
>> <
>> https://books.google.de/books?id=btgXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT127&lpg=PT127&dq=frederick+forsyth+pynchon&source=bl&ots=XzztUaCr-x&sig=ACfU3U2w-d_zdetjCnDUBZyOPsvwhe1IvA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB9fPp0ZTnAhVS4aQKHZaLBZQQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=frederick%20forsyth%20pynchon&f=false
>> e
>>
>> One might infer that the friendship began around the time of Freddie's
>> first book, a runaway bestseller,* The Day of the Jackal.* 1971 His
>> publisher was
>>   Viking. Pynchon's publisher..
>>
>> *“The Day of the Jackal makes such comparable books such as The Manchurian
>> Candidate and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold seem like Hardy Boy
>> mysteries.”—The New York Times    ( memory or recreated one: made me want
>> to read it---but I didn't) *
>>
>> Such a quote *would *appeal to TRP. We know he has read Le Carre and liked
>> him without reservations of 'genre'. We also seem to know that he often,
>> through his agent, Ms Donadio and other industry insiders, got new books to
>> read before they were published*. Catch--22* seems almost circumstantially
>> provable as just one he read before publication.
>>
>> Then there is the forgotten Richard Condon. of *The Manchurian Candidate.
>> *Once
>> compared to "satirists" like, O, Thomas Pynchon and some other black
>> humorists. (Latterly, discredited for some plagiarism, including, someone
>> showed, passages of MC 'taken' from Graves,* I, Claudius.! *[A post-modern
>> mixer before the mix times? ] Famous for his* LISTS!*! Pynchon list fans.
>> Famous for extended metaphors ---"complex sentences that go bang at the
>> end"...and for
>> the fiction of information. Condon to Pynchon, like those
>> lost English writers who did the inferior Hamlets and King Lears before
>> Shakey?
>> Wikipedia: "The fiction of information"[edit
>> <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Condon&action=edit&section=4
>> ]
>>
>> Condon's works are difficult to categorize precisely: A 1971 *Time magazine
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_magazine>* review declared that,
>> "Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged
>> at Western civilization and every last one of its works. He decorticated
>> the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star
>> system with equal and total frenzy." [6]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-6> The headline of
>> his obituary in *The New York Times* called him a "political novelist",[7]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-NYT-7> but went on
>> to say that, "Novelist is too limited a word to encompass the world of Mr.
>> Condon. He was also a visionary, a darkly comic conjurer, a student of
>> American mythology and a master of conspiracy theories, as vividly
>> demonstrated in 'The Manchurian Candidate.'"[7]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-NYT-7> Although
>> his
>> books combined many different elements, including occasional outright
>> fantasy and science fiction, they were, above all, written to entertain the
>> general public. He had, however, a genuine disdain, outrage, and even
>> hatred for many of the mainstream political corruptions that he found so
>> prevalent in American life. In a 1977 quotation, he said that:[8]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-8>
>>
>> "...people are being manipulated, exploited, murdered by their servants,
>> who have convinced these savage, simple-minded populations that they are
>> their masters, and that it hurts the head, if one thinks. People accept
>> servants as masters. My novels are merely entertaining persuasions to get
>> the people to think in other categories."
>>
>> With his long lists of absurd trivia and "mania for absolute details",
>> Condon was, along with Ian Fleming
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming>, one of the early exemplars of
>> those called by Pete Hamill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hamill> in
>> a *New York Times* review, "the practitioners of what might be called the
>> New Novelism... Condon applies a dense web of facts to fiction.... There
>> might really be two kinds of fiction: the fiction of sensibility and the
>> fiction of information... As a practitioner of the fiction of information,
>> no one else comes close to him."[9]
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Condon#cite_note-9>
>> Quirks and characteristics[edit
>> <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Condon&action=edit&section=5
>> ]
>>
>> Condon attacked his targets wholeheartedly but with a uniquely original
>> style and wit that made almost any paragraph from one of his books
>> instantly recognizable. Reviewing one of his works in the *International
>> Herald Tribune*, playwright George Axelrod
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Axelrod> (*The Seven Year Itch
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year_Itch_(play)>*, *Will Success
>> Spoil Rock Hunter
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Success_Spoil_Rock_Hunter>*), who had
>> collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the film adaptation of *The
>> Manchurian Candidate*, wrote:
>>
>> "The arrival of a new novel by Richard Condon is like an invitation to a
>> party.... the sheer gusto of the prose, the madness of his similes, the
>> lunacy of his metaphors, his infectious, almost child-like joy in composing
>> complex sentences that go bang at the end in the manner of exploding cigars
>> is both exhilarating and as exhausting as any good party ought to be."
>> --
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>>
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