> "Because the original was an incredibly stupid line?"
> Mark
.. .but the revision is even stoopider. I'n'it?
Robin
(I've had a backchannel suggestion that Auden killed the Original Dildo as
it was A Pathetic Euphemism for a penis.
Dunno. Makes sense, but the revision not only lost the dildo but dressed
the "nude young male".)
STILL baffled by this-all.
Robin
(Auden itch as yet unscratched.)
[Also -- meatlife verbal expansion of the euphemised-dildo suggestion, how
specific would a dildo/gay connection be in a poem published in 1948?
Anybody still around who was gay in 1948?
NOT just a joke -- there's a straight/gay ambiguity around the re-titling of
"Easily my dear ... " as 'A Bride of the Thirties'. Links.
I think.]
Robin
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