...I thought of lots of ways to describe this, but they all put bad images in my head

[rachelmanija]

Which I will now share with you! Meet Ray Bradbury's talking penis.

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

...

I'll be over here gouging out my mind's eye, now.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Mhh well. Taken entirely out of context that passage struck me as rather tender. Talking to your penis is a literary trope that goes back at least to the Romans (Apuleius, I think) if not the Greeks, and it's always when guys are seriously pissed off at it for uhh standing them up is not the pahrse I want, is it? A long farewell at least makes a change, and if it's appallingly sentimental, well, Bradbury always was.

[ex-filmmaker362.livejournal.com]

You'd think by now Ray's member would be to shriveled up to talk.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear.

My partner claims "women have similar 'passing on womanhood' myths," but is unable to provide examples of similar, er, caliber.

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

**gapes**

*Boggles*

**Gapes some more**

AS someone else said, it wouldn't be so bad -- oversentimental and a mite odd, but not bad -- if it didn't talk back.

"We're friends?"

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Now I'm imagining slash between this character and the title characters of Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog.

[hokelore.livejournal.com]

I think we have a sideshow act here: "Ray and His Talking Johnson!"

Pretty fucking weird.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

In Brazil "Braulio" is a common pet name men use for their penises. A condom campaign (I think it was condoms) featured a talking penis named Braulio and had to be discontinued because (1) the Catholic Church doesn't want men to use condoms and (2) there are actually real men named Braulio (what were their parenets thinking?) who complained.

I seem to recall that one of the major magic-realists recently published something with a conversational penis, but I do not recall the details (Marquez?).