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...usual pack of media jackals at the airport asking the usual dumb questions. What is it really like being a giant panda? Is it true that I've come all the way from London to have an interpanda relationship with what's-her-name at the National Zoo in Washington? Is it true that pandas know little about foreplay...
...biting, just like Alex Comfort recommends. Except for the gentleman from the Times, who wanted to know my feelings about the Laffer Curve, everybody wants to talk about sex. All that locker-room chortling about my "mission of love," "my furry virility" and that old joke about "pandaring" by zoo officials...
...know about sex. They keep explaining how it's done, and I half think they'll be showing me illustrated pillows next. O.K., there's the fiasco of Chi-Chi and An-An, who couldn't get it on at the Moscow Zoo a few years back. But would you be relaxed on a honeymoon in Moscow? As for Washington, a covey of environmentalists has been invited to meet me and have some wine and cheese. And after my first date with wingding, they're planning a round-the-clock watch by volunteer voyeurs...
...scene occurs in Chester Himes' If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945). Himes' hero, Bob Jones, takes his girlfriend to an exclusive restaurant, where the waiters stick them off in a corner and where other customers ogle the black couple as if they were birds in a zoo. Jones' girlfriend is mortified. He trembles between panic and rage. Looking around the room, he sees a white ensign and a "very blond girl" sitting with an older couple, evidently the parents of one of them. Jones and the ensign have been casually admiring each other's girlfriend...
...carbon monoxide and the cancers to go away--he wants the persiflage to magically transform itself into poetry. He wants...and that's all that matters. As long as that impulse is still there Ray can live to tell the tale, Ray's life--a trip to the zoo...