Thanks to John Temple for his weasel work, which threw up particularly the
quote from Keats, which seems to me clinched. The Great Expectations
connection I can't take on so surely, though the ligatures are instructive
in more ways than one. What do others think? The following: " For/ even
I speak to her the sun was lowered" is a quote from Marlowe. It is spoken
by Zabina, wife of Bajazeth, shortly before she brains herself over the
corpse of her husband. They are both the captives of the Scourge of God
imperialist, Tamburlaine.
The heart from Keats would fit nicely with the biology of real weasels;
weasels have immense hearts (her heart so vast), partly since they have
sex for hours on end at an incredibly rigorous rate. This is because a
female weasel cannot conceive without achieving orgasm, which is
difficult. I think the 'too small to hold its blood' gets warped from a
heart into a penis, in reference to this function of the heart perhaps.
Buckshee hunt! k
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