> Marcus
> you have used deliberately sexualised and obscene language in your response
> to Alison's arguments - golden showers, crap, courtesan, masturbation
> ... Your objection seems to be something visceral to do
> with her defence of feeling and the physical. It seems to me that your
> argument collapses in the welter of its own excessive imagery and refusal to
> respond to what has been said.<<
That's self-contradictory on the face of it -- if Alison is right and you agree
with her then you must, it seems to me, view all such sexualized language
(golden showers, crap, courtesan, masturbation) as POETRY and not as "obscene".
You can't have it both ways.
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