Thursday 11 March 2021

Crime novel, fingers and napkins, gender and sex

For all its genetic promiscuity, a pre-symptomatic killer virus leaves no fingerprints of the spreader on the victim, nor is it easy to prove the spreader’s intent. Do I sense an opportunity for a crime novel writer there?

In these straitened times, let us make a case again for fingers in preference to napkins in post-prandial chops maintenance, the chief argument being the amount of food that can be salvaged annually by deft reintroduction into the mouth via said fingers as opposed to food irretrievably lost in the folds of a napkin.

 

Gender and sex must not be confused – gender is the difference between goose and gander while sex is what the two have in common.

 

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