[lit-ideas] Re: "My Secret Life" and its place in the history of Eng.Lit.
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:09:28 +0100
I'd love to reply to this message, but it would give everything away ...
Instead, I refer you to Ian Gibson's The Erotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry
Spencer Ashbee.
A superb example of literary detection that nobody would admit to reading. It's
very good (so I'm told by myself) and claims to finger Ashbee (as the author of
'My Secret Life').
Cheers (as they seem to say in Argentina)
Simon Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:53 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] "My Secret Life" and its place in the history of
Eng.Lit.
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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