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  • Power is an afrodisiac only for good looking old people.

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  • If they turn up here tomorrow, it’s only because they’ve found out, say, that our ground-up spleens are an afrodisiac for their women.

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  • ; the woman who thinks afro is short for afrodisiac, having something to do "with colored people being so highly sexed"; The Glory of the Hummingbird (New York: Popular Library, 1974), p. 103. the character who thinks "exhibitors" are "preverts"; Madder Music, p. 74. the character who thinks a penal colony is a place where male chauvinists should be incarcerated I Hear America Swinging (New York: Popular Library, 1977), p. 149.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1 1983

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