The definite article of salience

August 6, 2023

The Mother Goose and Grimm strip of 12/3/15 (lots of stuff hangs around on my desktop for a really long time), depicting a canine guardian of the gates of dog heaven:


The definite article of uniqueness, here distinguishing a proper name St. Bernard (unique in some salient world for the user and their audience), the name of a specific saint, from a common noun St. Bernard (a type name), the name of a breed of dogs

Now it turns out that this usage can be employed to distinguish two proper nouns (according to their salience in a particular sociocultural context); and to distinguish two common nouns (picking out the salient type, rather than naming an individual). (Necessarily rather complex) examples follow.

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He Kissed Me

August 5, 2023

(Gay porn, detailing man-on-man sex in street language, so entirely unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest)

[A short short story (under a thousand words) from 1/16/96, intended for a volume of such stories (A Thousand and One Kisses) that was never published, perhaps in part because of the sexual explicitness of this story. The story is also one piece of my fiction about the characters Sundance and Butch.]

He Kissed Me

I’d go there every so often. Cut school, which didn’t have much to say to me anyway, and ride my bike downtown (a long slow uphill, actually, which meant a nice glide back home in the late afternoon). No one remarked on me going to movies in the middle of a weekday; I looked 18 rather than 14 (early growth spurt, a pile of muscle-building farm work), so I guess the people at the Bijou thought I was just a farm boy between chores.

I loved the cowboy stuff, Montgomery Clift and Guy Madison especially. But I’d watch anything, for a while. Sooner or later I’d check out the men’s room, which was nicely placed (you went down a long flight of metal stairs into the basement, then along a corridor to an odd corner well out of the way of accidental visitors) and usually had some action, if you were willing to wait for it.

This guy I called Murphy — he looked Irish, but I never got his real name, since we never, either of us, uttered a single word — was a regular. The first time, he was standing at the last urinal with his cock hanging out, half hard. I stared at his cock and into his eyes, he turned away from the wall and towards me, I knelt down in front of him and sucked him off. He had a very sweet cock, just the right size, and he came fast, always did. When he was done he’d zip up and walk out, wordless and expressionless. He had calloused hands and wore work clothes and boots; I figured him for a construction worker of some kind, with empty times between jobs. We always played the same scene.

The fifth or sixth time I came down to the t-room I walked in on Murphy zipping up and this frat-boy type (going from bottom to top: penny loafers, pressed chinos, crisp white shirt, dark blue figured tie), curly black hair and cute as hell (I called him Mitchell, which turned out to be his name and he was a frat boy too; sometimes I just know things), was watching him with that thanks-and-see-ya look I’d seen in my own face in the mirrors here.

Our Man Murphy left, and Mitchell and I looked at one another, approvingly. Ya wanna suck my dick, shit kicker? he said, like he was offering me a beer. (Amazing! Guys almost never talked down here). I could feel my face flush with embarrassment, plus desire. Sure do, I blurted out. (I learned early that it pays to be up-front with what you want.)

He steps forward, I start bending my knees to worship in front of him, but he puts his hands behind my head and pulls me back up. And towards him. And kisses me — first just brushing his lips against mine, gently, then opening my lips with his tongue and entering my mouth. I can taste the sweetness of his mouth and, I think, a bit of the saltiness of Murphy’s cum. I do what I guess you’d call swooning — this has never happened to me before, though I’ve fantasized for years, on my bed, cock in hand, about long loving kisses from Monty or Guy — and Mitch, my lover Mitch, moves his hands down to embrace me, catch me, pull me against him. I can feel my cock, hard and leaking pre-cum, standing straight up against my belly, trapped by my briefs. Through his chinos and my dungarees I can feel his cock, a firm companion alongside mine.

Now he presses his tongue hard into my mouth and we both start moaning and I can’t believe that I can be open to, filled by, a man this way, it’s like getting fucked but with mouths, oh Jesus, I love dick up my ass (how come nobody ever fucks in this place?), oh Mitch, kiss me harder enter me. Mitch commences to growl, wolf-kisses me, and I shoot my load right in my pants, and he feels it happen. He chuckles. My mouth is hanging open, gulping air in, as Mitch puts his hands on my shoulders and pushes me down, with one hand unzips himself and pulls out his cock, with the other guides me onto it. I look up adoringly into his eyes, see that he’s past amusement, hurtling through arousal, he fills my mouth with cum.

We rested a while, my forehead on his belly, and then he helped me up so we were face to face again. We both said our thank-yous, and he kissed me a second time, affectionately, and I got hard again, and he went down on me, smiling, licking some at the first load of cum before taking my dick in his mouth and getting another.

Afterwards we kissed, third time, and I put my tongue in his mouth, we both liked that a lot. He offered his name and a short bio, and he asked for mine (I even told him about Sundance being my private name for myself). He admitted he had a thing for hunky farm kids, and I admitted I had a thing for cute college boys. I told him he was My First Kiss, and he replied gravely that it was his pleasure. (College boys are, in my experience, usually polite, unless they’ve been drinking.)

Every man I have ever loved, except one, looked enough like Mitchell to be his brother. Butch looks like Mitchell grown into a Real Man. I told Butch this a couple of years ago, and he told me it’s called imprinting. (I didn’t tell Butch that it took him some time to get past his reluctance, to get to be as good at kissing as Mitchell was at age 19.)

 

Roseate Tom

August 5, 2023

 

(This posting describes man-on-man sex in street language, so is entirely unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest)

[A lightly edited fictobiographical / porn story from 1991 (20 years ago), on a t-room theme. Note: the main events described here (the Scherzo) took place in 1967, the Coda scene in 1974. All of that was a long time ago. This is the version posted 2/5/11 (11 year ago, so 31 years from the original story) on my (livejournal) XBlog.]

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The peapod pendant

August 5, 2023

Georgia Morgan (now retired from linguistics in Brattleboro VT, where she creates and sells amazing jewelry) on Facebook on 8/3:

— GM: I will be at the Brattleboro Area Farmers’ Market this Saturday in the Rosie’s Wonders booth. Bringing these, and lots more …


(#1) Including this peapod pendant

— AZ: Love the peapod. I would wear that (except that I can no longer manage any kind of jewelry with my poor disabled hands)

— GM > AZ: If you ever want one, I do make pendants with an adjustable sliding closure that just go on over your head

— AZ > GM: Georgia, if you can do that for the peapod, I want one.

And it has been done. Georgia is working on the pendant; the check is in the mail. It’s my birthday present to myself; I have a prime birthday, my 83rd (I still can’t quite believe that I have somehow managed to live this long) in a month from now, 9/6.

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Brief shot: three gay porn faces

August 4, 2023

(Well, about gay porn and men’s bodies and man-on-man sex, discussed in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.)

Today in my e-mail, a Lucas Entertainment new (gay porn) scene, cropped here so I can focus on the faces:

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Getting warm

August 4, 2023

About my body — my core body, and, separately, my peripheral and surface body — and how it’s been changing, dramatically in the past few days. Dramatically improved, I hasten to add, in case you were worried you were about to hear another litany of my sorrows.

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Taking it from the gang

August 4, 2023

(About men’s genitals and man-on-man sex, in street language, with an image that’s WordPressable only because I’ve fuzzed out a ton of penises — so entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest)

Today only: yet another flash sale from gay-pornmongers Falcon | Naked Sword:

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Cognitive dissonance in bricks and mortar

August 4, 2023

From Steven Levine, continuing his observations in the Netherlands, on Facebook yesterday:


[SL:] A McDonald’s in Haarlem. I can’t decide if I think this is creative reuse or a violation of sensibility. Either way, what a building.

Ah, a continuation of my architecture theme, specifically in my posting “Durability, utility, beauty” from yesterday, where I looked at architectural design as simply the design of very large everyday objects, subject to the same judgments that we apply to kitchen tools, downspouts, typewriters, and the like.

In this case, there’s a certain cognitive dissonance (Steven’s “violation of sensibility”), between the elegant design of the building and the crass display of a fast-food restaurant.  (On the other hand, for a McDonald’s, this display is positively modest and unobtrusive.)

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Brief shot: cock time

August 3, 2023

(Obviously unsuitable for kids or the sexually modest.)

cock time, an atrocious pun on clock time, from the Tumblr gallery of penis4u: a very substantial, fully erect penis wearing a (sturdily masculine) watch. In the hope of getting the image on WordPress (it is transparently NSFW and certainly not acceptable on Facebook), I have cropped the photo so that it shows only a few inches of shaft — which might as well be a piece of light colored wood.

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Durability, utility, beauty

August 3, 2023

I post fairly often on the design of everyday objects, looking especially for genuinely useful things that are also a pleasure to use, hold, or see. Now, I find myself getting thoughtful postings from someone at Tumblr — a side effect of my having to join Tumblr in order to get at some racy male photography that I have since posted  — the 8/1 posting Firmitas, utilitas, venustas being about guiding principles for the mind, eye, and hand of the architect: that is, about the design of very large everyday objects.

I have no link to this posting, only the mailing, so I’ll reproduce that in full for its interest in the principles of good design, and the pleasure of its writing, which is both personal and analytical. (I don’t know who the writer is. The posting is unsigned — the e-mail reply address is merely welcome@tumblr.com — and I see other identification of them, so Tumblr cognoscenti are presumed to know who the voice of the site is. Grr.)

The text under the line. Then some comments and illustrations.


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