John Leonard
Then, from a back room, emerged what was known in the business as a Well Set-Up Young Man, likewise unclothed except for a dark blue line-infranty helment.
You know the position, Karl,instructed Naunt. Karl without comment got on all fours and presented his—Dally couldn't help noticing—presentable bottom.Now Dahlia, if you'd just get behind him, gripping him by the hips in a rather firm, no-nonsense way—
You said she'd be wearing a dildo,Karl reminded him somewhat breathlessly.
What's going on, Arturo,Dally inquired,if you don't mind sharing your thoughts here?
Maternal tenderness,Naunt explained,is certainly one of the A.O.D.'s attributes, but hardly the only one. Anal assault, not unknown in the military imagination, is an equally valid expression of her power, and the submission she expects, as well as a source of comfort, indeed at times provides pleasure, to the obejct of her attentions.
Indeed (the children are part of Their Crusade, off to Jerusalem):
When I reached the top I saw the children. They were moving very slowly in the glimmering heat and in the dust that rose up from their going. Peasant boys and girls they were, between twenty and thirty of them, the oldest of them twelve or thirteen but most of them younger, all of them thin and ragged, carrying their pitiful little bundles and singing thinly as they walked in the dry and dusty road.
As I watched them I heard again that bony and brutish chuckle: not only Bruder Pförtner but a whole company of him, a bony mob of him came trotting past me throwing off their monks' robes and showing the tattered parchment of their skin stretched taut over their bones. All of them had great long bony members wagging erect before them so that it was difficult for them to run; all of them were giggling and chuckling as they stretched out their bony hands towards the children. When they reached the children they pushed them down on to their hands and knees in the dusty road, mounted them like dogs and coupled with them, grunting in their ardour, screaming in their orgasms. The children crept forward slowly on their hands and knees, singing as they were violated:
Christ Jesus mild,
Sweet Mary's child
That hung upon the tree,
Thy cross we bear,
Thy death we share,
To rise again with thee.When the skeletons had sated their lust they fell away from the children and lay sighing and snoring in the road with limbs outflung. The children, their hands and knees bloody, stood up again and trudged on.
Of the rock that begot thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Later the narrator points out to the leader of the crusaders their scrapes: It's a rough road
, he says. One stumbles.
(The first quotation is from Against the Day, obvs, p 897; the second two are from Pilgermann, pp 61 and 63.)
Comments
on 2007-06-21 10:11:20.0, standpipe commented:
I see you've solved the title problem.
and, further, on 2007-06-21 10:21:57.0, ben wolfson commented:
I'm sure I haven't the foggiest what you're talking about.