Dogturd

He stares at the half-inch thick wad of banknotes as though I’ve just handed him a fresh dogturd.

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He stepped carefully round a dogturd on the pavement.

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Then you’re out on the sidewalk of Montparnasse with its fumes of tulips and clotted cream and clotted lungs and cigars and sewers—even fumes from the lobster who walks on a leash. And did his owner march slowly or drag his swimmerets briskly along through the one man’s Parisian dogturd that is the other man’s cutting-edge conceptual art?

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What has sex got to do with chakra therapy? Rather a lot, I would argue. Even in these (allegedly) enlightened times, sex is the “elephant in the living room” from a therapeutic and well-being standpoint. Yet we still pussyfoot around the issue “like Queen Victoria stepping round a dogturd”¹ unless the client actually presents with a sexual problem.

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