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debka_notion ([personal profile] debka_notion) wrote2004-02-25 01:42 am

Why?

Why do so many good Sci-fi stories decide to take a detour and discuss humans having sex with Martians?

Oh...

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2004-02-25 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
You should have had to deal with that class. In one day, we learned that: “Take my daughter, please! And I’ll give you a lot of elephants.”
-Professor Olga Davidson, on dowery, versus Dower.
“This radical new move is to sell your own vulva.” -Professor O. Davidson, on the innovations of Islamic marriage
“Why not just say, my vulva is your vulva, let’s share it?” -Professor Davidson, on WHy bother
“That’s why all those sex abuse cases happen: ‘Father, I masturbated.’ ‘Ooh, can you show me how?’” -Professor Davidson, getting sidetracked onto sex in Judaism and Christianity, after having been corrected that yes, Judaism does pay attention to the sex drive.

Just one of those days, I guess. And really- it was an abstract complaint, because the short story I was just reading decided to seque from discussing poetry, religion, dance, linguistics and translation to sex between a human and a martian, with no particular reason. Otherwise a good story, though. I don't mind so much, it's just that it was so utterly random...