"I had seen a giant plaster foot used as a doorstop at Chatsworth," he said, referring to the grand British country house.
The dining-room table was crowded with an installation of sculptures and statuary: a huge white plaster foot in a Grecian sandal, a tall Oscar-golden figure, a naked couple in an embrace.
Add on the four-figure plaster foot cast, which gets tossed at year's end, because the bastards know your beleaguered and bunioned foot will keep spreading like yeasty dough.
She received a plaster foot – intended to be an abstract representation of sex, according to Fleming - presented by The Wire actor Dominic West, at tonight's ceremony, attended by 400 guests.
Campbell would join luminaries including Tom Wolfe, AA Gill, Sebastian Faulks and Melvyn Bragg if he wins the award – a plaster foot - on November 25 at London's aptly named In and Out club.
It can do so still, as when Jean-François Carly raises ambiguity to a theatrical level: a lipsticked young man (or possibly a woman with a crew cut) lies seductively across an enormous plaster foot, while directly behind him-her stands a plaster leg much too small to lift those gigantic plaster toes.
But Mr. Fishwick, who said that he was not Mr. Guterson's actual editor, was on hand to pick up the award — a plaster foot, which is supposed to represent something to do with sex, though no one seems sure what — on behalf of Bloomsbury.
His win was announced in the apt setting of the In & Out Club in London by Carry On star Barbara Windsor; although the American writer was unable to accept his award of a plaster foot in person, he took his triumph in good spirits, saying in response that "Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I'm not in the least bit surprised".
Describing her making the first difficult climb on the way up, he writes: "Brooke put her hands over her head, spread them wide for balance, then plastered her feet to the rock.
Plaster holding foot in over corrected position".
