Wow. That's so incredibly awful.
Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
><http://gawker.com/news/the-naked-and-the-dead/norman-mailer-even-in-
>death-an-award+winning-perv-327128.php>
>
>the naked and the dead
>Norman Mailer: Even in Death, An Award-Winning Perv
>
>Now that he's up and died, Norman Mailer will—like Kafka, Borges, and
>Anna Nicole before him—forever be denied his Nobel, a prize reserved
>for alive people only. But, no matter! London's Literary Review has
>just named Mailer's pulp Hitler novel The Castle in the Forest winner
>of its annual Bad Sex in Fiction award. The old cad beat out young
>finalists Ali Smith and Christopher Rush for the honor; evidently, no
>need for Viagra when you've got rigor mortis. But the judges assure
>us this was no sympathy vote. As Review assistant editor Philip
>Womack told the Guardian, "It was the excrement that tipped the
>balance."
>
>"That, and the line about Alois [the male character] being 'ready at
>last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety'. That
>was pretty awful."
>
>In case you were wondering, "the excrement" wasn't manly Mailer
>talking about santorum; it's what your uncle's flaccid penis looks
>like. From the winning passage:
>
><quote>
>So Klara turned head to foot, and put her most unmentionable part
>down on his hard-breathing nose and mouth, and took his old battering
>ram into her lips. Uncle was now as soft as a coil of excrement. She
>sucked on him nonetheless with an avidity that could come only from
>the Evil One - that she knew....So now they both had their heads at
>the wrong end, and the Evil One was there. He had never been so close
>before.
>
>The Hound began to come to life. Right in her mouth. It surprised
>her. Alois had been so limp. But now he was a man again!
></quote>
>
>And now he's dead!
>
>Flash of bad sex wins Norman Mailer coveted book prize [Guardian]
><http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2217967,00.html>
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