but the tongue is dry “Drink deeply” what’s-his-name used to say “The well of living is you” Then he’d handle a silver ball without leaving a single print That was his crowning trick
In Bodies that Matter Butler further explores the possibilities for the phallus If as she notes Freud enumerates a set of analogies and substitutions that rhetorically affirm the fundamental transferability of the phallus from the penis elsewhere then any number of other things might come to stand in for the phallus …