The Most Horrible Word on the Planet

One insight that might be telling and pertinent to just how much Golem’s mind differed from so many in his nation was the “V” word mentioned on the Today Show. Fox reported it and went on about it all day long, calling it the most horrible of all dirty words, the horrid monster from the deep that had somehow surfaced on morning TV. When Golem saw the V he went through his list of dirty words and could think of nothing that started with a v. He put it down to some naiveté in the area of dirty words and made a mental note to run a check on Google for “dirty words” and try to find one that started with a v. Later when he learned that the v stood for vagina he was dumbfounded, as he always thought vagina was the most polite of all words for what it represented. It was the dictionary word that those in his generation had by the age of eight or so found in the dictionary and didn’t think much of, and then came to see that the dictionary didn’t contain the words that so enamored them. Golem loved pussy. Somehow Golem all his life thought that vagina was almost the scientific word, the one word that was in the dictionary, and to hear such a lot of fuss about it amused him and told him how out of touch mainstream media is with reality. He even considered for an instant renaming his tale (with Jack’s permission, of course) to The Vagina Monologs or Vagina Monologs on an Island of Sand. Suddenly, he remembered the kid in his class that called him a butt fucker and things like that, and thought of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie he had seen the previous week where Arnold told a kid of twelve or so that he will grow up to experience all the wonderful experiences in life — premature ejaculation, one of the examples he used to make his point.