Sunday, 28 April 2013

Immured mustard field. Found.

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Last night, reading for the first time that classic of prison literature, Die Zelle , by a distant kinsman of mine, Horst Bienek, I stumbled...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

Sex Lessons from Literature Unhindered by 20/20 Hindsight.

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Sometime late in 2007 there was a call for learned papers on the aesthetics and putative authorship (thought to be Oscar Wilde) of Teleny, o...
Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Escape Chute: An Unexpected Loophole to Enfranchisement

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The daughter of a maid, like the wife of a bachelor, is well taught .   This old English saying about illegitimacy (and common law...
Monday, 11 March 2013

Nonplatonic Cosmodemonic Histrionics . . . and an oxymoronic Feminist Bigamist . . .

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After the rather sophomoric observation I recorded in my preceding post, see ladies’ bikes http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/201...
Thursday, 7 March 2013

Desperately Platonic Fens

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I am reminded by my last post of a remark made by a female abhorrer of the Norfolk Fens: ‘Such desperately platonic scenery, strictly no int...

Put Your Arms Around Me ... Romances with a Reluctant Arsonist

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Some ten years ago a packet of private papers came into my hands, evidently the letters and sapphic- platonic love poems of a Suffragette f...
Sunday, 3 March 2013

Textistence

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When I was a very small child I truly believed that my storybooks issued out of the æther, and I was grievously disappointed when I learned ...