Slither slither slither slither went the tongue

[Helevitia]

AHAHAHAHA! Funny stuff

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/12/13/odd.literature.sex.reut/index.html

[az]

AZ

[Belwarrior]

.. and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns...

I dont think i can pronounce that "o" word above ..
well at least... the author was trying to do something different from others.

[Marshmallowman]

feck

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=otorhinolaryngological%20

[Jammrock]

ROFLMAO!!!

Quote from the definition for those to lazy to click the link
Otorhinolaryngology is the type of medical specialty that drives the layperson to despair, both of pronouncing the word properly and of having any notion of what it means.

HAHAHAHAHA....

Jammrock

[schmosef]

By coincidence I'm reading that book right now!

[KvHagedorn]

Any writer who would use such a word is a pretentious, affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big, bombastic, chichi, conceited, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin', hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious snob from the East Coast, who probably voted for Kerry.

[KvHagedorn]

I mean, just look at this pompous little dweeb.

[DukeP]

Rofl.

My thoughts exactely, Kv.

~~DukeP~~

[Guru]

"The smell of his armpits was on her shoulders -- a flower depositing pollen on a hummingbird's forehead," another reads.

Uh?

[schmosef]

Ok, so I haven't gotten to that part of the book yet, but I have to say that Tom Wolfe is possibly the greatest living writer of American cultural fiction. Anyone who doubts that should read "Bonfire of the Vanities" or "A Man in Full". I haven't finished "I am Charlotte Simmons" yet so I'm not going to speculate on what he was really trying to accomplish with that passage but I'm sure it was part of a greator context.

[KvHagedorn]

A commentary on American "culture" perhaps? He's still a pompous little dweeb.

[schmosef]

:sigh: