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staticky

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stat·ick·y  (stt-k)
adj.
1. Relating to or producing random noise accompanying transmitted or recorded sound.
2. Relating to or producing electrostatic charges.


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In those days before e-mail and cell phones, I spent hours upon hours pressing redial, waiting for one of the four international phone lines serving his hometown of Tbilisi to free up so that we could bellow to each other, at two dollars a minute, through a staticky roar that sounded like a volcano erupting over and over.
He started with a record, pulled from its staticky sleeve, placed on the dual drive turntable he was only recently allowed to use, whose top could be lifted with the side of his hand, the record making a pleasing, plunking sound when dropped onto the platter, whose sides were illuminated by an amber strobe.
They would run that radio-stick, or whatever it is, up and down my body, and it would make a staticky sound at my crotch.
 
 
 
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