Innovation
Eve is the name of a woman who has opened her legs for a man. His name is Frank. Frank has a nice cock, Eve thinks. His cock goes in and out of her and she thinks it’s very nice.
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Three days ago, Frank’s cock was going in and out of a woman called Gerd; Gerd had big, round breasts that Frank cupped while he stood behind her, moving his cock in and out.
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Three days before that, Gerd was kneeling on her bed letting another man’s cock go in and out of her; his name was Adam. Adam held her hips rather than her breasts and said, Oh God, Oh God. All aquiver he asked Gerd if she could reach her hand back, if she could get hold of his balls, if she could stroke them. Twelve hours earlier, he had been standing behind a woman who was called Eve, saying, Oh God, Oh God, while Eve supported herself with one hand and stroked his balls that were slapping against her buttocks with the other.
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Now Eve is doing the same for Frank, and with great success. Oh God, he says.
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God listens, he thinks. Then he makes everything apart from this disappear. The weather, time, the economy, those pointless conversations in the line at the deli, rose-growing, umbrella-buying, waiting in banks, all professions, all train departures and bus routes, bumping into someone unexpected around the corner, watching someone eat breakfast and suddenly being overwhelmed by love, by the feeling that one wants to remain here forever, in this ridiculously decorated room with large windows where someone is eating their breakfast, and one only has to reach out a hand to stroke the other person’s hair and not say a thing, in short, to love someone, etc.—all the usual pillars that in their own unremarkable and impressive ways have held everything together. They vanish. The practical consequences are that the world is now different, more horizontal, men and women have to have sex with each other all the time.* It’s a bit like a relay, or musical chairs, but everyone gets one and no one is left out. In a way, society has never been more intertwined even though all the usual pillars have fallen.