Reading without my glasses, I first thought it said "on a noisy riverbank," which I doubted could be right.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

Still, it is pretty funny. ;)

How did the author become aware of the plagirism?  Is he a pioneer romance novel fan?

Thanks for "ferreting" out this story Sarah, it's hunky.

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As for Cassie Edwards, surely she was making some sort of post-modern comment on literary formulaicism, by substituting lines from an encyclopedia entry for pillow talk.

As for bodice-rippers, surely engineers have designed by now the perfect bodice, which is rippable, but only slowly, and after an appropriate amount of resistance, so as to maximize the pleasure for both him and her.

As for doing it outdoors, Amazing, I should think a carpet of pine needles might be very pleasant indeed.  But moss sounds yucky.

As for the body of Shadow Bear, who facially looks sort of like a Jewish Mitt-Romneyoid, I recall from Evan S. Connell's "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn," that Mrs. Custer did not think much of the physique of Native American men.  She apparently was checking out everyone's proportions, and decided that, in comparison with the stalwart (?) Euro-Americans under her husband's command, the Indian males had puny upper bodies, so it was no wonder that their womenfolk treated them with contempt.

But she would say that, wouldn't she.

I do not remember that Mrs. Custer said anything about abs.  So far as male physical culture goes, there seems to have been a huge lacuna between the end of Antiquity and the Reagan administration, when the urban gay male gym-going habit became mainstream, and many "straight" men began to feel insecure when they examined themselves honestly in the mirror.  It was then that we realized that the size of muscles does not matter so much, but the definition and the proportions matter very much indeed.  By those aesthetics, the visibility of abdominal muscles becomes important, even crucial and diagnostic.  

And I suspect that the abs of the Lakota and Cheyenne who had that sorry encounter with George Armstrong Custer in 1876 by the Little Bighorn were by those aesthetics quite preferable to the abs of the men whom they shot down.

Which is not at all to say that any of them would have looked anything like so beefy and full-figured as the model for Shadow Bear.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

But, there is a serious side to this...notably that, according to the Romance Writers of America Web site,

Romance fiction generated $1.37 billion in sales in 2006.

Approximately 6,400 romance titles were released in 2006.

Romance fiction outsold every market category in 2006, with the exception of religion/inspirational.

26.4% of all books sold are romance.

To my mind that sounds like an awful lot of pulp and paper--and energy--used in the process of pumping out all these bodice rippers.

-k

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That's quality of life.  No mega bank account needed.  Most billionaires will never have fun like this.

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On topic: A quarter of the people I work with read her romances and once in a while you can catch a random conversation of why Juliette didn't offer Romeo an oral sex before he swallowed the poison and how the Danish prince discovered his mother's secret, under queen's bed - a bunch of adult toys.
Nevertheless the data is right. These romances are being sold like hot adult toys... oh, I meant hot cakes.