Alison:
> Yes, agreed on the Victoriana, though I like Rossetti very much. I
remember
> thinking Tennyson's poem (I can't remember the details and am not going to
> look it up) about Come into the garden Maude was hilarious, though. Was
it
> Maude who was a-weary, a-weary, I would that I were dead? Not much
suckling
> there, but it's great fun to say out loud, and can be a very useful tool
for
> annoying people when you're 12.
"The Lady of Shallot" -- 'Oh I am aweary, and would that I were dead!"
... looking into the mirror crack'd from side to side ...
{Lusting after Lancelot}
R.
(The amount of Victorian suppressed sexual imagery, not just in "Goblin
Market", is quite incredubble.)
You couldn't get away with it, even in cable today, in Dubya's America:
"The curse has come upon me!"
Said the Lady of Shallot.
R.
