“I had a hard-on so big I thought it would pick me up and throw me out the window.”
–From Going Away, by Clancy Sigal.
This from Going Away, Clancy Sigal’s superb but mostly forgotten memoir/novel about a disenchanted fellow traveler zooming across America in a convertible red DeSoto (from Hollywood where he has worked as an agent), meeting fellow disaffected Commies en route: a sentence that does for male tumescence roughly what “In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more” does for armed combat: the sort of sentence that picks up this writer and makes him want to cheer.
Peter Selgin is the author of Life Goes to the Movies (Dzanc, 2009).
Well, it picked me up and threw me out the window but I didn’t give a thought how was I going to land?
clancy
I ought to have written you personally to say what I think of your beautiful book. I hope my little post here gains it more readers. (Also I suppose I could have picked a more decorous sample, but for me this one captures the book’s tough poetry.)
Anyway I say you landed just fine.
–Peter
I ought to have written you personally to say what I think of your beautiful book. I hope my little post here gains it more readers. (Also I suppose I could have picked a more decorous sample, but for me this one captures the book’s tough poetry.)
Anyway I say you landed just fine.
–Peter