Makes me want to regain lost weight, and everything else

C.D. was jolly and obscene. With C.D. I felt happy, amused, outraged. C.D. made me feel that I'd been violated and survived. C.D. went over the hill with a huge yelp of delight and then, every trace of greed and lust and all those appetites that kept him constantly on the boil finally withdrawn, he fell into an unrousable slumber. And I felt like laughing. And I felt good and I felt tough.

Compared with the slim hard-bodied men his figure was a joke -- round, tubby, pillow-paunchy, it had the consistency of foam rubber; rolling around with him was like rolling around with some big beach toy.



from The Old Man and Me