About Helen DeWitt: Helen DeWitt is a novelist. She is the author of the highly praised novels, The Last Samurai (2000), Your Name Here (2007), and Lightning Rods (2012). She lives in Berlin.
[...] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.
The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower.
Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.
