Apologies in turn, sandal-wing, for my sharpish tone! Don't know
what it is about Good Friday that always puts me in such a Bad
Moody, but all this dirty talk on Easter Sunday is making me feel
cheerful as a resurrection (wishin' you a Burkin' Hare day, too).
To answer your questions below--by all means, call me "Candida,"
if you like, for it is well known that I come from the Land of
Hams (pace Circe), and your Terry Southern Italian dialect is
udderly irresistible.
A "come-on" is the "ordinary language" term for what philosophers
of the Wittgensteinian ilk call a proposition. As for the lewdic
"Mister Viv" and your queries re Penelope (Nope), Circe (C above,
er, minnie-haha), Nausica (Miss Prince, don't make me sick!)--now
ulyssen to me, Charmeneia, I am of course the very one you left
out of your reckoning: APOCALYPSO. [Say, Viv, think Reg could
interest Her Mes Jesty in a little sportswear avant elle pass
ananty?]
As beautiful as U2? Heaven forfend! You will be envy-green to hear
that I'm as ugly as Sappho--an embarrassment of grasses (if not so
long on lasses)--bleu-frommage caked and round-faced as the moon on
cortisone--
Porcinea
What-ho the Boatman? Cometh yet?
>And how about your name: do you mind if I call you Candida, with all the
>sweet implications that the name implies?
>"Candida e pura come un fiore.
>Candidamente casta come il sole.
>Gnetile tu mi appari all'imbrunire."
>(By the way... for cultural barriers I have a problem with phrasal verbs in
>English; What do you mean when you say : ("besides your come-ons to Viv, I
>mean.) , I did not catch your allusions to Mister Viv who was so charming as
>to exchange ludic poetic language games about Ulysses? Could you explain
>better the matter? Are you his Penelope? His Circe? His Nausica?
>
>I am sorry to have been unable to understand the tone of your letter
>completely.
>Sorry also to have offended your Saffo (whose poetry, as I have pointed out
>in my letter, I deeply, immensely admire).
>A last question, dear Candice: are you beautiful as me too?
>Sorry for my misprints: I am long sighted and short of glasses.
>EP
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 9:34 PM
>Subject: Re: Saffo? I hope not.....
>
>
>> Hey, Erminea--You don't mind if I spell your name this way, do
>> you? Given the way you treat poor Sappho? (Say, do you know BiBi?
>> Think you girls have a lot in common--besides your come-ons to
>> Viv, I mean.) And sincerely hope you two aren't ganging up him--
>> he's already been through enough lately, what with the Ordeal of
>> the Phantom Phaxer (another Odyssean figure, coincidentally?).
>> [SIDEBAR TO VIV: Just cuz I didn't answer yer "conceit" query
>> duzn't mean I haven't bin keepin' a weather eye on yez!]
>> --Candice
>>
>> P.S. Btw, Earminea, Sappho's "suicide" is as "proverbial" as her
>> "ugliness."
>>
>> P.P.S. Try not to post your HTML-draggin' e-messages FOUR times,
>> okay? (Almost as irritatin' as yer slanderous comments on Sappho.)
>>
>>
>> At 05:32 AM 10/20/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> >Dear Viv,
>> >
>> >well, in spite of my immense appreciation of Saffo as a poet, well I am
>nor
>> really
>> >flattered to be compared to her: she was a lesbian (in love with Lesbia)
>> >With all the respect for the lesbians, I have other tastes.
>> >Moreover, and more embarrassing....her ugliness was so remarkable as to
>> become proverbial. On the contrary, I am very beautiful.
>> >... finally, she committed suicide, because of non reciprocated love for
>a
>> boat-man.
>> >
>> >EP.
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