Word: fainted
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Lining a wall of the factory showroom like sentinels, the dildos are the color and size of rainbow popsicles and give off a faint electric glow, except for the pink one that appears to have the head of George Washington. Life-size blow-up dolls hang nearby, blonds, brunettes and redheads with crimson mouths shaped in a permanent 'O,' as if surprised to find themselves rolling off the production line of a dingy Chinese factory. The sheer variety of sex toys, both anatomically correct and physiologically implausible, being readied for shipment from Wenzhou Loves Health Products is disturbing...
...other saving grace is the faint trace of tragedy that lurks beneath Spidey’s happy-go-luckiness. Going through my brother’s Marvel trading cards, the heroes I kept coming back to were the beautiful ones whose stories were laced with some kind of sadness, heroes like Rogue, Phoenix, Wolverine and Cloak and Dagger. The best kind of superhero struggles with a crippling weakness, a desire he/she can never fulfill, or, like Spider-Man, a tragic past that motivates his heroic deeds. Spider-Man fights criminals because they killed his dear Uncle Ben. So swoon, people...
...reached the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble under contract to NASA. It was not the Tadpole itself, which looked just fine and about as astronomers had expected it to, but the background of the photo. It was filled with other galaxies. Thousands of them, including one, a faint red smudge in one corner of the picture, that probably is among the oldest objects ever witnessed, formed within about a billion years of the Big Bang itself...
Sure, I’ve had my share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...
...unifying element of all these California tremors—I did not have to experience any of them. However, Saturday morning I was inexplicably awakened from eight hours of unconscious bliss, only to experience the faint yet extremely unsettling rumbling that I had felt so many times before...