“Francis realized he was afflicted with what his father used to term “an erection of the curiosity organ.””

Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 11 (p. 132)

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“Francis realized he was afflicted with what his father used to term “an erection of the curiosity organ.””

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