Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, I had been wondering the same thing. What in the world was I doing there? The question came to my mind many times in that first week of classes last semester--as I adjusted to living in a tent, showering outdoors and attending lectures on a sand bank...
...spend a few weeks there with my friend Zac, relaxing before my freshman year in college. We spent most of the time in Kingston, visiting old friends and haunts. In the last week of August, we travelled to Ocho Rios, on the north coast, to feel the sand on our backs and hear the waves for the last time in many months. We checked into a large hotel on the beach, spending days swimming and nights prowling...
...conversations between Wing and Sand become less a way to show the process of writing a story than a means for saving the story. When the chapters full of Alcoholics Anonymous rhetoric overwhelm and the words "fuck" and "cock" appear for the thousandth time, Wing interrupts and asks Sand if this isn't all a little ridiculous. Sand reminds her that life is ridiculous and that trying to turn reality into a novel cannot alter the excesses of life...
...book proposes to detail Sand's quest for self-fulfillment, but Jong sets up an unrealistic dichotomy between self-love and romantic love, making the former emotional and the latter purely orgasmic. The men she loves don't love her, but they do give her multiple orgasms--they take her to Henry Miller's infamous "Land of Fuck...
When I interviewed Hochschild, she said that barriers that appear to be made of concrete are really made of sand. Envisioning "pro-family" changes in the American economy, she thinks more men will begin to share housework fairly and rationally...