Word: phallic
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...detonation. In that, laughter resembles sex. Or do I mean sneezing? Anyway, there's an outburst, a blast of something that aspires to ecstasy. But unlike sex, laughter (unless it is bitter, derisive laughter, the weapon of scorn) has a gregarious quality: shared, social. Why not? Comedy originated with phallic pageants in ancient Greece, in which men would caper around wearing immense penises. Lots of laughs...
...Fabre's The Power of Theatrical Madness featuring Mapplethorpe's work. The pictures are erotic and feature lots of bare flesh. Annamirl appears bent over the naked body of Wim, who lies majestically on the ground with his crown, his phallic scepter and prominent manhood grazing his thigh...
...confidently at Camera One, he or she is in reality at the mercy of the script that is scrolling, thanks to magical mirror effects, through the lens of the camera. The administrator of these words at the X Games was none other than yours truly, entrusted with a surprisingly phallic-sized wand, the head of which I turned to move the script through the viewing screen...
...ventured too far off-campus (excepting the regular visits to the Middle East, and goodness, I hope you all have been there, at least to see B-Side), would I have been able to participate in an extended conversation on grammatical construction of the phallic fallacy of symbolic fecundity...
While most of Tan's current stories-published by her personal company Circlit-are in the erotic/science fiction genre (hers feature "phallic plant people") last night’s excerpts came from her earlier period...