126. plump

Remember how Updike referred to that girl's breasts as two [large] [drops] of vanilla?

Actually, he said scoops of vanilla, but yeah.

Why didn't he just say that she was plump?

Because he wanted an image that would lodge itself so deeply in your psyche that it would come to you unbidden years later when you are trying to remember a logographic figure that looks a little like a woman's decolletage fastened together with a brooch.

Oh. Well, he did a really great job!

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