[lit-ideas] Re: Masterly (or Personly) Outcomes
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:39:09 -0500
You gotta love the dog-walkers references to number one and number two.
And the word lingerie was imported by the Brits to avoid having to say
undergarments.
And people used to cover up piano legs to prevent the male mind's
slippage to women's legs.
But one of the funniest things I ever heard was that libraries in New
Zealand (as late as the fifties, I was told) used to shelve male and
female authors separately.
Ursula
contemplating the varieties of sexual congress on her bookshelves...
Snuggling under the dustcovers, their spines atingle, their hardbacks
bristling, their frontispieces rustling, their glossaries opening up,
their forewards not at all backward.
I'm sure some of the books are making little booklets even as I write.
Mike Geary wrote:
I'm not sure why we love those words so much, but I learned just a few
days ago that the reference to white meat and dark meat on chickens
evolved to let us avoid those words that might bring to mind women's
body parts. Ya gotta love horny humanity. I assume it's all
humanity. But I don't know if all cultures use sex words to giggle
over or if all throw around scatological words like monkeys flinging
feces.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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