![]() ![]() The Clan of the Cave Bear was a bestseller in 1980, followed by The Valley of Horses in 1982 and The Mammoth Hunters in 1985. The library was organised by the Dewey Decimal System and raging with prepubescent curiosity. So it was with extreme shyness that I first fingered the spine of Jean M Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear in my high school library. Sex is an occasion often smothered by shyness – or it always has been for me. In sex a groan will suffice and first names take on a tangy strangeness, if you can even get them out of your mouth. Little need to rock a metaphor, let alone cup a simile, and even less need for a full sentence with a bald full stop. The Valley of Horses still contains the best description of heterosexual sex I’ve ever read.Īs much as I love language, I concede sex is the one situation where I’ve rarely needed it. The essay appears in the book as “Other Video Artworks I Have Made with Daryl Hannah.” ![]() ![]() ![]() This essay is excerpted from Dunn’s brilliant new book, Things I Learned In Art School, in which she tracks her childhood, crappy jobs in a strip club and a steak house, her art career (she liked to splice Disney film clips with other media) and an obsession with Daryl Hannah. Megan Dunn, like many of us, discovered it in her high school library. Jean M Auel unleashed her Earth’s Children series – and Jondalar’s manhood – upon the world 40 years ago. ![]()
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