SERVING BODIESSashimi, ginger, wasabi.
Breasts, legs, slightly bent.
Thousands and thousands of dollars.
Her act of serving is a haiku of nourishment.
Well, here's an odd BOOK and review...
A few words on sex
LA Times / June 1, 2003
...Many new novels by women have now been affected by this promise of the salacious and the camouflage of the literary. In Cynthia Gralla's recent book, "The Floating World," for instance, a beautiful American woman, Liza, whom we assume to be Gralla, in real life a doctoral candidate at Berkeley, interrupts her schooling to study butoh dance in Tokyo. Driven to "extreme" experience, she ends up working in a nyoutaisushi restaurant, where fetishists eat meals served on the bodies of nude women.
The book seems to promise what it does not deliver: a deep discourse on sex and the erotic imagination. Instead, it is a sometimes well-written story of a bulimic in Japan's decadent underworld, marveling at the origins of words and traditions...
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