To: Borges; Siena Dreaming
BTW, Homoeoticism in Moby Dick has been a subject of scholarly inquiry for some time nowI resisted the urge to talk about the more than slightly obvious homoeroticism in Shakespeare's 20th Sonnet, which Siena brought up earlier. This thread has enough tangents as it is.
213 posted on
05/22/2006 2:55:35 PM PDT by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: Alter Kaker
In the opening lines from Moby Dick (which, contrary to many people's belief, isn't an STD at all):
"He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world."
240 posted on
05/23/2006 8:55:20 AM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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