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Arthur Golden

“Men have a kind of... well, an 'eel' on them... It isn't an eel really, but pretending it's an eel makes things so much easier. Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live.

You may not know this about eels, but they're quite territorial. When they find a cave they like, they wriggle around inside it for awhile to be sure that... well to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory, by spitting.

Men like doing this very much. There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in.”

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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