2) St. Augustine: If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know.

Prince calls it little because he imagines a woman’s body waist up, the rest Corvette, which is French for a sort of girlie warship, a chimerical twist on the Freudian cockpit. Who wouldn’t want a belly button for a windshield?...

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