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Article: Read Book, Wash Hands
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- The Village Voice
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- August 6, 2008
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Read Book, Wash Hands Erotomania: A Romance By Francis Levy Two Dollar Radio, 162 pp., $14
Are golden showers the blowjobs of tomorrow? Just ask satirical novelist Francis Levy.
'Once I let go of the slim tethers that tie me to so-called reality and I'm in that VlP room, I'll be preconscious," says a character standing on the brink of a lap dance in Francis Levy's Erotomania: A Romance. "Schopenhauer said that reason was the only way we could resist the demands of the will. I disagree. There is no way. But let's see."
What he finds inside-a Comédie-Française alum reciting scenes from Corneille's Le Cid while on all fours, a champagne-room-wide discussion of Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and the ...