“America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.”

[Walter Abish, In the Future Perfect, New Directions, 1977, ISBN 0811206602, Pg. 22]

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