Cock-and-bull story [kok-uh n-boo l] an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth.
Cock and Bull by Will Self (Quantity theory of Insanity, Feeding Frenzy, My idea of fun) is an interesting collection of two novellas, Cock: a novelette and Bull: a farce. Each tells a tale of a metamorphosis and each with a Kafkaesque hilarity.
In Cock: a novelette, Carol is married to the pisshead Dan. He does not satisfy her sexually or spiritually because he is too busy drinking out with his pub-buddies. However, the situation, literally, grows worse when Carol discovers that she is growing a tiny penis. She tries to hide it from the world but is soon quite fond of it and ultimately thinks that it might just be the “tool” that she needs in her revenge on Dan…
In Bull: a farce, John Bull, a ‘man’s man’ who plays rugby and is an editor of an entertainment magazine, wakes up one Kafkaesque morning to find a vagina at the back of his knee. He goes to his doctor looking for advice but the doctor, Margoulies, finds the whole thing a medical marvel and his initial awe ends in a doctor-patient relationship that leaves very little to the imagination and as to the allotment of pleasures…
These stories are, of course, satires and only dissect the horrors of these metamorphosed individuals. Will Self not only holds the individual characteristics of both the male and female genitals in brisk and humorous prose, but applies the same for showing the possible reactions of the metamorphosed. These are one of Will Self’s less abstruse works and many will find it a light, interesting read. All I can say is that after putting this aside, a woman will think twice before calling a man ‘a c**k’ and a man will think thrice before calling a woman a ‘c**t’. Which is fine with me.
Cock and Bull by Will Self (Quantity theory of Insanity, Feeding Frenzy, My idea of fun) is an interesting collection of two novellas, Cock: a novelette and Bull: a farce. Each tells a tale of a metamorphosis and each with a Kafkaesque hilarity.
In Cock: a novelette, Carol is married to the pisshead Dan. He does not satisfy her sexually or spiritually because he is too busy drinking out with his pub-buddies. However, the situation, literally, grows worse when Carol discovers that she is growing a tiny penis. She tries to hide it from the world but is soon quite fond of it and ultimately thinks that it might just be the “tool” that she needs in her revenge on Dan…
In Bull: a farce, John Bull, a ‘man’s man’ who plays rugby and is an editor of an entertainment magazine, wakes up one Kafkaesque morning to find a vagina at the back of his knee. He goes to his doctor looking for advice but the doctor, Margoulies, finds the whole thing a medical marvel and his initial awe ends in a doctor-patient relationship that leaves very little to the imagination and as to the allotment of pleasures…
These stories are, of course, satires and only dissect the horrors of these metamorphosed individuals. Will Self not only holds the individual characteristics of both the male and female genitals in brisk and humorous prose, but applies the same for showing the possible reactions of the metamorphosed. These are one of Will Self’s less abstruse works and many will find it a light, interesting read. All I can say is that after putting this aside, a woman will think twice before calling a man ‘a c**k’ and a man will think thrice before calling a woman a ‘c**t’. Which is fine with me.
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