you. complete. me.

from the collection Riddles for a Person of Medium-High Culture.

If it weren't for all this ______1_____ surrounding us, trying to _____2______ our every attempt at ______3_____, we totally would have _____4______ by now. That much is clear. As it stands though our task, our true task, is to _____5______ with a vehemence becoming a _____6______ on the night of her first true _____7______.

No. No, I remember your first ______8_____, of course i do -- it's not as though you would allow me to forget the slightest degail -- but it doesn't count. Why? Because of the way it happened, the way you tell of the _____9______ that took you by "surprise," you say, and _____10______ you in the back _____11______. That by itself is barely credible, but when you insist on emphasizing the _____12______ and how you knew you shouldn't keep _____13______, but you couldn't help it, how every time you opened your eyes you saw only _____14______ and felt fated to _____15______ again ... That's why it doesn't count. It's either fake or it came way after your first or both. Well, let's discuss it more later.

What we need to focus on right now is neither your _____16______ nor even my _____17______; our efforts must concentrate on finding the best, most ____18_______ way to _____19______ in the history of _____20______. Their humiliation at our _____21______ will be all the more profound if we were to _____22______ in some public fashion, don't you think? Yes, let's. Let's do it until the _____23______ come _____24______, until all they can think of is our _____25______ and how they will never _____26______ again.


Answer Key:

1. twinkling
2. blink
3. sparkling
4. Penguin City
5. thinkthinkthink
6. coterie extravagance
7. intersection
8. con-de-jour
9. circumspection
10. hallowed
11. vithertulously
12. "spirituality"
13. fucking around
14. sweet, sweet thighs
15. bless & bless
16. insight
17. foresight
18. difficult
19. hypothesize
20. it all
21. concern
22. blast it all
23. carabinieri
24. fire us
25. giddy juiciness
26. try this all

(thanks to the esteemed dr bryn for her help in sussing out the answers.)