Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 07:50:46 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Re: Donne/California/Dog Therapy



>I really do hate to hit delete for any of that poem - but it's too long to
>quote in full. This gives an idea of what it's about, though - I think we
>all know what that stout "giant fancy" is meant to be... stop giggling Dr
>Freud. But again, images of acquisition: mine / rich / pregnant fancy;
>precious / burnish'd gold/ exchequer / rak'd for ore etc. All very
>interesting - damn I wish I had all day to talk about these sorts of things
>as you do, you lucky bastard. But I'd better go now...
>
>Just one more thing, sir... Being English I find Milton's prose works and
>Wordsworth's "rather long Excursion" far more conducive to arousing women
>than that nasty John Donne. You should try them, really.

I set some of Johne Donne's more sarcastic verses, told from the point of
vview of a woman who had been use and thrown away. The woman who sang it
loved it, the woman who played the piano for it loved it, the women who
listened (art song recitals being heavily female) loved it.

Net: being cynical and knowing and above it all is a thrill for either sex.
Donne's was a fairly bawdy age. Call it the "anti-romantic" approach.

PS - LOL is "Laughing out Loud". The net has entered that exclusive
pantheon of language games which has so much repetative expression that it
spawns a hoard of abbreviations, which are none the less easy to understand
and remember - simply because they are so useful. Medieval Academicism, the
Law - and Dry Cleaning - being three others


Stirling Newberry
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