> Somewhere at home, I have a book of reproductions of illuminated mss.
> one of
> whose pictures shows (graphically) a young man biting his tongue off
> to
> avoid succombing to the wiles of a beautiful temptress. In fact, the
> author/editor waggishly says that "as he felt temptation rising in
> him," or
> some such double entendre.
Pardon me if I'm slow - I'm a bit out of touch with these matters - but
how would biting off his TONGUE in particular help him in this
predicament? Was there nothing more ąpropros he could have bitten off?
Elasticus.
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