I was giving a reading at some university. Down in the front row of the auditorium was a young lady in a leather microskirt and a leather microbolero, tied with a leather bootlace, and nothing else whatever. I said, 'I have an extremely wide repertory. What would you like - sex, revolution, or mysticism?' She looked up and said quietly, 'What's the difference?'
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