It featured the words "bulbous salutation", FYI
Veteran musician and blossoming literary flower Morrissey may only have one novel to his name — this year's List Of The Lost — but he's already raking in the accolades (sort of), taking out the Bad Sex In Fiction prize in the 2015 Literary Review awards.
As The Age reports, judges were clearly taken — in one form or another — with Morrissey's inventive, descriptive, borderline nonsensical writing style, with The Telegraph having done the world a great service by reprinting solid chunks of this literary despair to prevent anyone from having to actually purchase the book in order to just read the 'best' bits.
Among the awkward, lumbering madness, Morrissey manages to whip out (sorry) not only "otherwise central zone" as a heartily unsexy euphemism for a woman's vagina, but casually drops "bulbous salutation" for good measure, because his end goal is clearly to rid the world of the ability to experience any kind of arousal. Seriously, read this passage and then pray for your sex organs, because they will lose the will to exist for just having been near these words.
Oh, yeah. That is hot stuff.
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Somewhat upsettingly, Morrissey was not in attendance at the Literary Review's annual dinner in London on Tuesday night (imagine that speech), leaving rock critic Charles Shaar Murray to win the evening with his acceptance-in-stead:
"In an ideal world this award would be received by Morrissey. Or someone who publishes Morrissey. Or someone who likes Morrissey." #BadSex
— Literary Review (@Lit_Review) December 1, 2015
Actually, in all honesty, we're pretty sure this night was orchestrated solely to have fun at Morrissey's expense. At least, that's what the Lit Review's Twitter stream makes us think...
Morrissey unfortunately will not attend because the room has meat in it.
— Literary Review (@Lit_Review) December 1, 2015
Charles Shaar Murray tearing it up on stage. Use code BULBOUS to subscribe to the magazine & read his brilliant words.
— Literary Review (@Lit_Review) December 1, 2015
Congratulations, Moz!