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Winter 2006 • Vol. XXVIII No. 1 • Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome |

It All Happens in Water

Lubricant

Entering Paradise Video, it was pretty much what I had anticipated. Walking down fluorescent aisles, I saw videos arranged into subcategories like Fetish, Anal, Lesbian, Latinas, Cumshots. No Dewey decimal system, this, but the level of organization was impressive. A shelf displayed Taxi Girls, Use It or Lose It, and Voluptuous in proper alphabetical order. Nothing out of place. On the left side of the room, standing at an elevated checkout counter, a man yelled Yiddish into his cell phone, spraying spittle onto the cash register. His free hand pushed the air away making STOP gestures, fingers spread wide.

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