I had this rather complicated idea--at least, complicated to write:
A husband and wife enter a large bookstore. The man sees, from across the bookstore, his illicit lover - a teacher from a literary appreciation class he once took. He has not been with her in a month, but seeing her makes him instantly aroused. But he knows that he has to be extremely cautious--not only is his wife there, but his lover has a husband who he has never met, who may also be in the bookstore. He moves close to her, and makes brief, but intense eye-contact. She seems to understand the delicacy of the situation, and gives no outward signs that she recognises him. She walks away, between a shelf of books, slowly, and he follows, keeping his distance, pretending to be searching the shelves for a book.
She takes a book from the shelf, flips through it, and then puts it back, continuing on. He moves to the book she had taken, and finds that one of the page-corners has been folded back--marked, by her, for him. Upon closer inspection, he finds that a couple lines on the page have been underlined with a depression made by a fingernail--he reads the two lines--an expression of desire and lust. He puts the book back, and looks to see her now inspecting another book. And as though she has been waiting for him to look up, she puts the book down on the shelf and moves on. In this way, she leads him through a series of erotic passages in existing books, the passages moving from desire to lust to foreplay to intimacy to sex... Basically, an intense shared erotic encounter without anything more than a single glance.
I would love some feedback on this idea... I would also love any suggestions for those ultimate sexual passages in general literary fiction (not erotic fiction books).
Some of the books I had thought I would use:
Hundred Years of Solitude -- Marquez
Ada or Ardour --Nabokov
English Patient -- Ondaatje
Studhorse Man -- Kroetsch
Lady Chatterlys Lover -- Lawrence
A husband and wife enter a large bookstore. The man sees, from across the bookstore, his illicit lover - a teacher from a literary appreciation class he once took. He has not been with her in a month, but seeing her makes him instantly aroused. But he knows that he has to be extremely cautious--not only is his wife there, but his lover has a husband who he has never met, who may also be in the bookstore. He moves close to her, and makes brief, but intense eye-contact. She seems to understand the delicacy of the situation, and gives no outward signs that she recognises him. She walks away, between a shelf of books, slowly, and he follows, keeping his distance, pretending to be searching the shelves for a book.
She takes a book from the shelf, flips through it, and then puts it back, continuing on. He moves to the book she had taken, and finds that one of the page-corners has been folded back--marked, by her, for him. Upon closer inspection, he finds that a couple lines on the page have been underlined with a depression made by a fingernail--he reads the two lines--an expression of desire and lust. He puts the book back, and looks to see her now inspecting another book. And as though she has been waiting for him to look up, she puts the book down on the shelf and moves on. In this way, she leads him through a series of erotic passages in existing books, the passages moving from desire to lust to foreplay to intimacy to sex... Basically, an intense shared erotic encounter without anything more than a single glance.
I would love some feedback on this idea... I would also love any suggestions for those ultimate sexual passages in general literary fiction (not erotic fiction books).
Some of the books I had thought I would use:
Hundred Years of Solitude -- Marquez
Ada or Ardour --Nabokov
English Patient -- Ondaatje
Studhorse Man -- Kroetsch
Lady Chatterlys Lover -- Lawrence
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