Several other passages in ‘Graduate Sex’ are nearly verbatim replicas of passages in Oxford, including a sexual partner who cries out ‘I LIKE you!’ in the middle of coitus, and two nearly identical phrases uttered by women to protagonists in erectile distress: ‘I’m not used to feeling penises casually’ (Oxford); ‘I’m not accustomed to handling penises casually’ (‘Graduate Sex’).
Ladies and gentlemen of The Paris Review, are you now or have you ever been a weapon of soft power for the CIA?
