For anyone who has read “Last Exit to Brooklyn” by Hubert Selby, Jr.:
This is the chapter where the transvestite (I think it was Georgette), after years of being “in love” with and lusting after Vinnie, the local stud, while he has only treated her with indifference, cruelty and downright derision, finally gets to fellate him.
Upon noticing a strange taste “down there” (Vinnie has just spent some time alone with a prettier trannie (Georgette pretends not to care)), she wonders exactly what the taste is.
Then when it’s over, she says, “It wasn’t shit.”
Now, I’m pretty sure what the reference is; I was just wondering if anybody else interpreted otherwise, the way I did when I first read the book.
Initially, I thought Georgette was remarking on the fact that, after all of her years of and anguish in lusting after Vinnie, the fait accompli was just not that great.
It’s kind of fun to play with the thought it could mean both.
Any thoughts, comments.