Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (25 page)

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Authors: Walker Percy

Tags: #Humor, #Essays, #Semiotics

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E
ARTHSHIP:
What does that mean?

PC3: Playing roles, being phony, lying, cheating, stealing, and killing. To say nothing of exotic disordering of the reproductive apparatus of sexual creatures.

E
ARTHSHIP:
What does that mean?

PC3: Exploitative sex.

E
ARTHSHIP:
Exploitative sex?

PC3
(consulting computerized earth-slang dictionary):
It seems to mean what you call “screwing everything in sight,” not only
to
and
to
but
to
and
to
and
+
+
and
+
+
—to mention a few of the simpler combinations.

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