Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout (Philip Jose farmer)
Kilgore Trout was a fictional author in some of Kurt Vonnegut's books and I was quite excited when I stumbled on this book in a used bookstore way back when. Not that I thought it was a good book but I was a huge fan of both Vonnegut and Farmer and found it amusing.
Quote:
Queen Margaret of the planet Shaltoon let her gown fall to the floor. She was
wearing nothing underneath. "Your travels are over, Space Wanderer," she
whispered, her voice husky with lust. "Seek no more, for you have found. The
answer is in my arms."
"It's a glorious answer, Queen Margaret, God knows," the Space Wanderer replied.
"I am going to accept it gratefully. But I have to tell you that I will have to
be on my way again tomorrow."
"But you have found your answer, you have found your answer!" she cried, and she
forced his head between her fragrant young breasts.
He said something that she did not hear. She thrust him out at arm's length.
"What was that you said?"
"I said, Queen Margaret, that what you offer is an awfully good answer. It just
doesn't happen to be the one I'm primarily looking for."
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