[lit-ideas] Re: Costumes
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:17:51 -0700
On Aug 17, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
> I meant to write
>> Mike Geary wrote
>>
>>> I've always considered neckties as phallic symbols --flaccid-phallic
>>> symbols. They've always seemed to me to be a statement over the gate to
>>> our curture that reads: "Abandon all hope of fun, ye who enter here."
>>> Yeah, but then I come from a working class background.
>>
>> I think you should give us an analysis of bolos (the 'Western' ties), and
>> bow ties. If you're not to busy, you might deconstruct the Windsor, the
>> half-Windsor, and the four-in-hand. (I'd be careful with that last one.)
>
> Yours appreciatively,
>
> Robert Paul
> Tie-less in Gaza
Professor Geary will no doubt recall the talk that I gave at the Friday Harbor
conference some time in the last two decades, "Sex, Swords, Suits and Ties,"
and the subsequent course I taught on the same subject. He was at one time
much impressed by my revelation that the tie has a martial [Croatian] origin
and that dangly down bits of one sort and another were often the subject of
warriors' wit. In his free time he will no doubt be planning to visit this
semester's seminar on the history of weapons and bring with him his magnum
opus, which I've heard is quite thick.
David Ritchie,
rich with ties in
Portland,
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