Quote: At Mass. General she had been prescribed not a plaster cast but, in the latest therapeutic fashion, a plastic boot-space-tech in feeling, overlapping blue and gray with a ridged sole curved like a chair rocker. It could be removed briefly but had to stay on during something as strenuous as f*cking.
I know what those are! My wife has one, and she'll have to wear it (or maybe a cast, we don't know for sure yet) for 6-12 weeks after her foot surgery. They refer to it as a "moon boot," probably because it resembles the boots of the spacesuits worn by the moon astronauts. She actually got one when she first broke her foot, but it kind of fell apart after awhile; the Velcro patches came unstuck. She now has a better one.
Any idea which Updike novel that was? Maybe I can use that passage to convince her that certain things might be possible even before she's fully healed. And did Updike write any sex scenes in which the guy was wearing a leg brace?
- "A"
"Everything that happens, happens. Everything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Everything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again."
