{"id":2179,"date":"2004-04-18T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T15:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2004-04-18T08:14:45","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T15:14:45","slug":"brautigan-revisited-an-american-love-story-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Brautigan, Revisited – an American love story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 2: Love At First Sight<\/b><\/i>
\nGo to <\/a>Chapter 1.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

     A few years back I met a girl named Elizabeth Seidel. She was a pretty girl with long, coffee-brown hair and willowy arms and legs, the kind of girl whose solid trunk could lure a squirrel out of its tree or give a family of blackbirds reason to relocate. Her eyes were enormous and green — every bit as welcoming as the mat of synthetic green grass resting beside the wading pond at the foot of my bed, should I ever wish to wipe my feet. She didn’t know who I was, she said.
\n     That made two of us.
\n     Elizabeth was a college girl from Washington State. She was studying philosophy, Western mostly. Theology interested her too — though she was quick to point out how she considered organized religion sexist and barbaric.
\n     “Well yes, I suppose the patriarchs were <\/i>a bit stodgy,” I said.
\n     “Stodgy nothing,” she snorted. “A bunch of loons wandering through the Levant, their dicks stuck in their donkeys. Not ideal circumstances under which to prescribe a code of morality.”
\n     “Or foreskin care, for that matter,” I said. “Dry heat or no.”
\n     I’d met Elizabeth in a bar called Sonny’s Tavern Christmas week, 2000. I was sitting alone at a corner booth drinking a bottle of Boone’s Farm wine, strawberry, when she approached me. I had no razor with me at the time.
\n     “Hello,” I said, staggering to my feet.
\n     “Hi,” she said. “Mind if I join you?”
\n     “Not at all. Please.”
\n     “You look pretty drunk, if you don’t mind my saying — and me, I’m heading in that direction. So I figure we may as well carpool, y’know?”
\n     “Yes, good point. Please, sit.”
\n     I sat back down and she pulled in alongside me, snatching away my bottle. “Boone’s Farm,” she smiled. “My favorite.”
\n     “That makes two of us,” I said. I motioned for her to take a swig. “Bottoms up…?”
\n     She took a long draw of the wine and smiled. “Oh, you have no idea<\/i>.”
\n     It was love at first sight.<\/p>\n

\n****
\nChapter 3<\/a>
\n
\n—–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 2: Love At First Sight Go to Chapter 1.      A few years back I met a girl named Elizabeth Seidel. She was a pretty girl with long, coffee-brown hair and willowy arms and legs, the kind of girl whose solid trunk could lure a squirrel out of its tree or give a family of blackbirds reason to relocate. Her eyes were enormous and green — every bit as welcoming<\/p>\n

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