Well, Max, no Falstaff, me. Thanks for the knee reminders.
Bill
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> never - except in mirrors - with difficulty…
>
> and compare what Falstaff says about body shape to Henry…
>
> PRINCE HENRY
> No, if rightly taken, halter.
>
> Enter FALSTAFF
>
> Here comes lean Jack. Here comes bare-bone.—How now, my sweet creature of
> bombast? How long is ’t ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?
>
>
> 290 FALSTAFF
> My own knee? When I was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle’s talon
> in the waist. I could have crept into any alderman’s thumb-ring. A plague
> of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.
>
> On Aug 2, 2016, at 15:08, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Strange flat skin you never see
> > Just take on trust
> >
> > Imagine head screwed on backwards
> > Have to take genitals on trust
> >
> > Spend time with spine
> > Rubbing it up and down
> >
> > Nippled front the new back
> > Gaze at bum cheeks
> >
> > Reverse folding at hips
> > Make for interesting
> >
> > bw
>
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