But it does move...

'You must be the fiftieth woman who has said that to me. It's a credit to universal education that whenever a girl meets Dick Brown she begins to talk about the wheel and the lever. I've even had a French prostitute tell me about the fulcrum.'

This is from Mary McCarthy's novel The Group. I get the feeling that I might have found it a little more racy and / or true to life if I had managed to read it when it was first published, sixteen years before I was born. But please set me right - maybe Archimedes really is the subject of much current pillow-talk.