Stephen says
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There are Mother Goose tales, such as a farmwife might have told; there is
the proverbial goose that laid the golden eggs, warning about the perils of
greed. And there is the goose as a veiled reference to the penis in the
verses
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Well, dearie me, I never thought of that!
Goosey goosey gander, whither do you wander?
Upstairs and downstairs and in my Lady's chamber ....
... the nursery rhyme that I'm told used to distress me horribly as a
2-year-old, because I couldn't make it rhyme properly. Should have known
there was something odd about it.
joanna
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