[lit-ideas] "My Secret Life" and its place in the history of Eng.Lit.
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:53:01 EDT
Seeing that we have a gynecologist amongst us, I thought the OED quotes for
'condom' were pretty funny, especially
1904 DULBERG tr. Senator & Kaminer's Health & Disease I. vi. 238
"The condom is..relatively the most perfect anticonceptual remedy. "
Don't you hate, Geary, that almost vacuous, rhetorical, use of 'relatively'.
Either something is _the most perfect_ or it ain't.
If 'condom' does not come from a Dr. Condom how come 'Condom' IS an American
surname?
Another good quote is from a book which I have seen quoted in a couple of
books on 'erotic' literature -- a rather pathetic reading, I must add. The man
was so full of _fears_:
c1888-94 My Secret Life X. 311
It was an age since I'd had a cundum on my prick.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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