Speaking of which (the train of associtions goes like this: pict, stone,
monoliths, Sierras), there's a narrow defile in Yosemite National Park
between two very white very conical monoliths, each of them approximately
200 feet high and almost identical in shape. It's called (I'm not kidding)
Mansfield Pass, in honor of the late Jayne.
The putative size of the sexual apparatus of subject peoples, and the
fantasies engendered thereby (to be serious for a moment) seems to me to be
an attempt at reifying their supposed diminished humanity--like Shylock
they are defined in instinctive terms, being deficient spiritually and
intellectually, and therefore needing the guidance of their betters. But
the fantasy extends one step further: they are imagined to be irresistible
to the women of the hegemon, who are seen to be similarly lacking and
similarly the slaves of instinct, and similarly in need of guidance and
dangerous when it fails to be provided. The girl runs off with the
raggle-taggle gypsy oh but rarely with the member of the House of Lords or
the deacon of the local Methodist church. Unless, of course, she overwhelms
such dignitaries with her instinctual drives and they ruin themselves.
Think _The Blue Angel_, _The Scarlet Letter_, _Carmen_, the Profumo affair.
OK, I'm out to lunch (some may have already suspected as much), then off to
a pow-wow this evening. More perhaps later.
Anyone ever die of wordplay? Other than the chap who was drowned by a
friend while punning on the Cam?
Mark
At 04:00 PM 9/1/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>What do I have to do, draw you a PICTure?
>
>
>> Your meaning unclear: are you suggesting that the subject people, by taking
>> unto themselves the fantasy of their quondam overlords, have subverted its
>> meaning? Or merely that the Jocks are bigger in Scotland?
>>
>> At 03:44 PM 9/1/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>>> Domestic balls will be larger and
>>>>> harder than foreign balls.
>>>>
>>>> Interesting. This seems to be a reversal of the usual fantasy: that the
>>>> exotic, especially the once-subject or enslaved, are better-endowed.
>>>> Perhaps there is such a thing as progress (or at least jingoism).
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Don't forget that this is a SCOTS fantasy!
>>>
>>> Candice
>>>
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