A freshly made ear and a freshly made vagina look very much alike, Tengo thought. Both appeared to be turned outward, trying to listen closely to something – something like a distant bell.
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: Bad sex award extract | Books | guardian.co.uk
What? Why? An ear? Listening?
If you’d like to read all the contenders for the Bad Sex Award, it’s your lucky day, as The Guardian has listed them for your schadenfreude pleasure. Also, if you struggle as a writer, this will serve as great consolation: if Murakami, Stephen King, James Frey, etc can write such awkward interactions and still be acclaimed, then there is hope for all of us. I suppose…
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