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I just came across this wonderfully euphemistic phrase in a short dystopian story by James Morrow, "Auspicious Eggs". The scene is set inside something known as a "Copulatorium", just to give the context, in a society obsessed with breeding.

The briny scent of incipient immortality suffuses the air.
What an amazing way to say, "It stinks of semen in here." Love it.


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