The Disaster of Description Overdrive

" His balls and penis dangled down, pointing to the sign which said: COCHIN" - From The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

"We moderns are not interested in a hero's pathology or family history, nor in his drives, his digestion, and how he sleeps." - From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

"Or in this case where a particular man's genitals point." - Yours truly


"Estha noticed that the hair on his head was curly grey. the hair in his windy, armless armpits was wispy black, and the hair in his crotch was black and springy. One man with three kinds of hair. Estha wondered how that could be." - From The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

“Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.” - Kurt Vonnegut

"Who besides Estha and Ms. Roy cares how that could be?!!" - Yours truly