<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=579759" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thrills</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can there be thrills without soupcon<br>of fear, can sex in private places<br>be as exciting as the fun<br>of sex in public, where disgrace is<br>a risk sex gamblers like to take<br>to trump love made inside a closet? <br>With fear a thrill will raise the stake, <br>and risk the forfeit of deposit, <br>and since the fear gets less each time<br>the thrill occurs, new risks are taken<br>until they escalate to crime, <br>where thrills, like fear, are godforsaken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Inspired by Dan Neil’s review of the Nissan GT-R (LA Times, April 16,2008, “Uptight, outta sight: a marvel of power and speed, the Nissan GT-R is so safe and serene that it is curiously lacking in thrills”) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[F]for all it’s pants-ripping performance, the GT-R is surprisingly––amazingly––not all that exciting to drive. Oh yeah, there’s epic velocity here, and yet, because there is so much assurance, so many electronic layers of self-preservation, there isn’t much frisson or fear. Without fear there is no fun, which anyone who’s had sex in a public place can tell you…Despite the GT-R’s official nickname, “Godzilla, ” it’s more like 2 tons of fluffy kitten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4/16/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=579759" data-title="Thrills de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Can there be thrills without soupcon of fear, can sex in private places be as exciting as the fun of sex in public, where disgrace is a risk sex gamblers like to take to trump love made inside a closet? With fear a thrill will raise the stake, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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