File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9712, message 187


From: Patsloane <Patsloane-AT-aol.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 00:57:58 EST
Subject: Re: Petronius/Pornography (Was Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy Who Does...


In a message dated 97-12-30 00:39:38 EST, Greg writes:

> The two aren't mutually exclusive; pornography is a Greek word after all
>  (lit., "whorewriting"). Where did people eve get the idea that the ancients
>  were fuddyduddies? 

No, we're the fuddyduddies.  I forgot where I read about Pericles appearing in
public with his boy lover in tow.  I can't imagine any American president
doing that.

pat


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