2002-06-14 ~ 7:16 p.m.

High Fidelity Sex

"I remembered what it is I like about sex; what I like about sex is that I can lose myself in it enirely. Sex, in fact, is the most absorbing activity I have discovered in adulthood. When I was a child I used to feel this way about all sorts of things-Legos, The Jungle Book, The Hardy Boys. The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Saturday morning cartoons...I could forget where I was, the time of day, who I was with. Sex is the only thing I've found like that as a grown-up, give or take the odd film: books are no longer like that once you're out of your teens, and I've certainly never found it in my work. All the horrible pre-sex self-consciousness drains out of me, and I forget where I am, the time of day...and yes, I forget who I'm with, for the time being. Sex is about the only grown-up thing I know how to do; it's weird, then, that it's the only thing that can make me feel like a ten-year-old."

-Nick Hornby

"High Fidelity"

Funny that, eh?

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