Tungus reindeer herders stood gesturing up at a gigantic sign reading SPECIAL REINDEER SHOW, and calling out in their native tongue to the tip gathered in front, while a pair of young women in quite revealing costumes—who, being blonde and so forth, did not, actually, appear to share with the Tungus many racial characteristics—gyrated next to a very patient male reindeer, caressing him with scandalous intimacy, and accosting passersby with suggestive phrases in English, such as "Come in and learn dozens of ways to have fun in Siberia!" and "See what really goes on during long winter nights!"
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Yes, Thomas Pynchon put a donkey show into Against the Day. Or, I suppose, the hint of a donkey show. It's not graphic like the shit eating scene in Gravity's Rainbow.
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