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8 m a k i n G o f t h e s c r o t U m Paper or plastic won’t do. testes bagged double can only mean trouble if the sac should break through. steel’s no better. if your oil dries up the housing will crack and the bearings will turn unspeakably blue. a little compartment of balsa and glue? Light in the crotch but the slivers, ach du! or a pocket of denim, pre-wrinkled and blue. in one generation you’ll fall out of fashion and your knees might wear through. make mine a kind of basketball rind, a shanty of skin from my crocodile kin, tooled and pebbled and seamed in the middle— two rooms with a spectacular view. ...

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