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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Just in the middle of the Elliot Perlman novel of the above name (not the Empson treatise on whatever it's about) and I have to say that for a book I picked up for £1.99 in a second hand bookshop just coz of an interesting title it's pretty damned good. I've got no idea where it's going but I'm along for the ride and loving it. A story of obsesive love (to start with) which leads to a man kidnapping his ex-girlfriends son and repercussions from the kidnapping. The two characters the whole thing spins on have barely been in the book compared with the impact they've had on the story so far. I haghly reccommend this book - (so far) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Just come across 'beetle-walk' (upon which a young couple partook together) in 'Dusty Answer' (1927) by Rosamond Lehmann (a wonderful novel btw). What's a beetle-walk? des | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.91.38 |
A bit like a beetle-drive but without a car. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Isn't that what you do in a line of four across Abbey Road? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.192 |
I like those Niki & Mick. :-) The full context from the 1927 book is: "In the old days it had sometimes seemed as if she would have been pleased - really pleased, not just indifferently agreeable as she generally was - if Julian had offered to take her for a beetle-walk." | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.108.41.142 |
I would assume it refers to a sex act in which the ends of six limbs (four feet and two hands) are touching the floor. But given the date of the novel, perhaps not. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.2.107 |
What's the mystery? It's literally, a beetle-walk. Replete with leashes and beetle-bags (you don't want to go messing up your community, after all). Everyone who was anyone had a pet beetle, back in the day.... | ||
| Tom English (Deadletterpress) Username: Deadletterpress Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 68.10.197.98 |
If it's a dung beetle walk, then it involves rolling a huge ball of poop back to the parlor. ;-) |