Originally posted by french frank
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I like Gosse's critique of Thomas Browne's 1658 The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, naturally, artificially, mystically considered - "gathering his forces it is Quincunx, Quincunx, all the way until the very sky itself is darkened with revolving Chess-boards"...
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I was interested to see that it almost invariably referred to the pattern of planting trees. I didn't know that - I only associated it with dice. I was vexed at the idea of replacing it with 'trio' as that would have provided a very unbalanced image. I'd have preferred parallelogram, but I expect that would have been criticised too. I suppose 'diamond' would have been all right but I've only just thought of thatOriginally posted by vinteuil View Post
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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One very good word is melonsmellonous
The visible signs of antesatisfaction?
An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a tentative revelation: a silent contemplation.
Then?
He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.
The visible signs of postsatisfaction?
A silent contemplation: a tentative velation: a gradual abasement: a solicitous aversion: a proximate erection.
What followed this silent action?
Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation, catechetical interrogation.
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If that isn't a recommendation I don't know what is. You're on!Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
This might raise a few eyebrows but I actually think Self's Dorian is even more brilliant than Wilde's!Comment
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On what?Originally posted by RichardB View Post
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Reading all that has given me a severe attack of melon colic.Originally posted by Mandryka View PostComment
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