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"What the world wants to knowтАФand what she has never told usтАФ

is just what kind of woman invites the whole world to listen in on her
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 Slow, Slow Burn
by George Alec Effinger



private sexual experiences? Does Honey P├нlar provide surrogate

passion, and happiness, to millions of people dissatisfied with their

own love lives, or is she merely pandering to an emerging taste for

high-tech titillation?

"Next time, I'll tell you how this reporter sees it."

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Kit and Honey are having dinner in a small, dimly lit caf├й near the

ocean. A tall white taper burns on their table and, shining through

their wineglasses, casts soft burgundy shimmers on the linen

tablecloth. Across the narrow room is a stage made of scuffed green

tiles. Lively North African music, distorted and shrill, plays too loudly

through invisible speakers; hovering just an inch or two above the

stage is the holographic figure of a demure-eyed, big-hipped belly

dancer. There are streaks and scratches on the woman's face and


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body, as if this recording had been played many times over many

years.