Alison Croggon wrote:
>I assume some of you have caught up with this study. Not only are poets
>unhinged, they have very exciting sex lives. (Presumably Hildegard von
>Bingen doesn't enter this picture...)
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Hildegard the Flying Nun? Please.
As for the rest, this is at least questionable. Exciting: a night of
drunken orgasms followed by a morning of remorse. Sex is an activity
with a price tag far in excess of its value for the momentary shudder in
the loins. All I got out of my poet-based galivantings was the
aforementioned divorce and its discontents, plus the privilege of
setting up housekeeping with the last person in the chain. It is no
longer romantic, it is even a bit toward insufferable, and rather like
the Carol Burnett skit about Snow White and Prince Charming 20 years
later. I have been looking for years for Erica Jong's "ZF" (can't spell
it out here)--it applies to men as well as to women. Excitement without
consequences. It's a myth.
ken
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