Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Nude Beaches - Too Much?


I was admiring a friend's pictures, one of which was of a sign advertising a nude beach, and I was reminded of a quote from Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - I wrote it down upon reading it because it was funny:


(On considering a nude beach for recreation)

“I step over to the bearded man, out of Toph’s earshot, and try to get the lowdown.

‘So like, are kids allowed down there?’
‘Of course.’
‘But, is it like...weird?’
‘Weird? What about it would be weird?’
‘You know, for a little kid? Is it too much?’
‘Too much of what? Of the human body?’ He says it in a way that’s meant to make me seem like the freak, he Mr. Natural and me some kind of clothes fascist.
‘Never mind,’ I say. Stupid beach - probably just a bunch of naked guys with beads, bony and pale.”

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