[lit-ideas] John McCreery, "Gags (The Expurgated Edition)"

McCreery: 
 
>I enjoy Speranza's posts the way I enjoy a strong blue  cheese.
>One or two bites a day is delightful [...] But
>too  much and a gag reflex sets in [in my mouth].

Call me masochist, but I like that -- McCreery's gag reflex,  that is. I like 
reflexes in general, they are so _unintentional_. This second  quote from the 
OED below indicates that gags can be intentional ('an  unsuccessful effort to 
vomit'). The first quote on gagging at transubstantiation  is _not_ meant for 
Geary, since he swallows it.

Cheers,
 
J. L. Speranza
    Professor of Literature and Philosophy, etc.
    University of Buenos Aires
 
              ps. I read in Andras Ramos's description of the list that it is 
meant for  "university professors of literature and philosophy" to "discuss 
the impact of  technology". I like that.
 
Quote 1
 
1707 HICKERINGILL  Priest-cr.  II. v.  49, 
I do not, in the least, wonder, that he (that  swallows Transubstantiation) 
should Gagg at believing, that [etc.]. 

Quote 2

1825 FORBY Voc. E. Anglia, Gag, to nauseate; to reject with loathing, as if 
the  throat were closed against the admission of what is offered; to make an  
unsuccessful effort to vomit. 
 



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