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Jan 25, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Too close to real, Roy, too close! “Ye catamite masters” lololol.

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Jan 25, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

(Bogus, because Fritters, Alabama closed its library and turned it into a bait and tackle shop. *Everyone* knows that.)

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Jan 25, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

It's like Penthouse Forum for God-bothers.

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Jan 25, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Now you've gone and reminded me of the best first line of a novel ever written. I speak, of course, of Anthony Burgess's "Earthly Powers":

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

Rod would love it. It's all about religion.

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Jan 25, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

I started to giggle at "the subjection of thy hips and buttocks to its lurid sway," but really, the whole thing's a winner. Puzzlewit seems like he could have actually existed at some point!

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Jan 25, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

The pull-quote from “Dark Inquisition” philosopher Periwig Puzzlewit is prime. Great piece, Roy.

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