>Oral seduction begins with the poem's moment of concluding, with
>understanding all the words, as Andrew Zurcher aptly put it following
>Professor Hamilton, but also listens to all their sounds and forms?
A very Spenserian moment! Note that Oral Seduction (allegorized with all
its sensual ambiguities and possibilities) both "begins" and "listens," so
that Oral modulates into Aural, and we final get it in the ear. We can only
marvel at the extreme mobility and virility of the Spenserian text!
Yours, Bill Godshalk
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