[lit-ideas] Re: Costumes
- From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:52:42 -0400
I thought ordinary ties were used as handkerchiefs.
Veronica Caley
Milford, MI
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From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:17 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Costumes
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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