We are indeed of similar upbringings, you and I, and I am beleaguered by
often stifling and stultifying mores but at the same time grateful for them
when I see hard-won freedom and liberty interpreted as license these days.
The Succubus , however, comes during sleep when my moral monitor is less
alert. Hey, am I telling my grandma how to suck eggs here. You understand
better than I. Regards Arthur. BTW did I tell you you make me positively
chortle sometimes. Long time since I had a good chortle but that's another
story. A
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From: "alderoak" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: New Sub: Succubus( Terri)


> >Good morning Terri, how are you, my friend??
>
> recovering - a few tussocks are appearing and even beginning to coalesce
> into small oases.
>
> >Aren't we all like this Terri??
> I take your point about the decent into disgust may be overdone but tell
me
> isn't disgust and shamefulness an element of solo sex which sex with a
> Succubus is essentially?? I will take your comments on board nevertheless.
>
> absolutely! that is what makes the poem so effective. Coming from a
prudish
> culture, I feel that you seduce the reader into complicity with the
> paedophilic masturbatory impulse beautifully. The tug towards disgust just
> felt a little harder than was strictly necessary. Almost as if you felt a
> Victorian obligation to rub our noses in it. I don't know about you, but
my
> upbringing has a traditional foundation, however postmodernist the facade.
> It only takes a quick shimmer on the Richter scale to reveals something
much
> more rigid and unyielding.
>
> Terri )O(