A REAL DOLL: A.M. Homes

“…I popped Barbie’s head into my mouth, like lion and tamer, God and Godzilla.”

This is disgusting, horrible, doing things to his sister’s Barbie doll, and the doll reacting. And likewise with the playmate doll Ken. It is beyond a joke or any pretension towards art. Not even subtly didactic about blatant gender issues. How can this possibly be a cult work? It is real. It is iconically awful. Full of gnawing of toes and desecration of toys. However well it’s written, it is the lowest literature can reach. and I am not being ironic. Soft porn only because there are no bones involved, except the human character’s own boner? There are merely erotic plastic bumps. It is worse than you could possibly imagine. The dolls actually reciprocate, well, the way Barbie does, if not Ken. And thank Heaven to Godzilla for having ensured preternaturally that — purely by chance — I am currently in the middle of Walter de la Mare’s Midget HERE. Memoirs of a girl as small as Barbie. My latest real-time review episode of it was only about an hour ago. Seriously. Check it out. 

“I wondered if black Ken was really white Ken sprayed over with a thick coating of ironed raisin plastic.”

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‘That Glimpse of Truth’ context of above review: https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/the-stories-of-walter-de-la-mare-6/