Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Eleven Minutes

Apparently that's all it takes for love making.

Was a productive day by any standards as I managed to finish the book in one sitting while waiting fulfilling national service obligations. All the while nursing an erection, in quiet anticipation of the moment when Maria would finally make love to her lost half. (According to Plato, the male and female body was previously joined together, whereupon the jealousy Olympus God Zeus split it with lightning. So love was a magic key to joining the lost halves together again).

Never set a goal to finish the book within a day but the book like its predecessor, The Alchemist, was a very easy read. Basically, the book is about a sexually frustrated young girl who dreams of fame and fortune and the accompanying rich husband who loves her undyingly. A chanced encounter brings the village girl to Switzerland where she decides to whore herself. Our intellectual prostitute then embarks on a journey of self discovery as it dawns on her that she and her colleagues were in Copacabana not because life was harsher on them but by choice. She was fortunate to find and be mentored by two "special clients" Terence and Ralf Hart.

Terence taught her the pleasure of pain whilst her lover Ralf taught her unconditional love. In fact, their love was so pure that the prostitute recovers her spiritual virginity (as opposed to sexual virginity).

I swore I experienced an orgasm myself walking back home just thinking about their passionate love making and the ever so romantic ending where Ralf flies to Paris to intercept his lost half on a transit flight. How could anyone not love the ending? Especially a sucker like me.

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