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A sentence in the June 23, 2008 New Yorker, in Judith Thurman’s piece about cave paintings, describes an “unmistakably phallic” stone in the Chauvet cavern:
“Wrapped around, or, as it appears, straddling, the phallus is the bottom half of a woman’s body, with heavy thighs and bent knees that taper at the ankle.”
I wonder how it affects one’s gait when one’s knees have ankles.
Posted by: Ron Sullivan
2 | By: Ron Sullivan on June 20, 2008 at 07:16 AM
HAH! Joe read that sentence to me and started muttering the same song. “The anklebone NOT connected to the knee bone!”
3 | By: VS on June 20, 2008 at 09:36 AM
“Straddling” - yet, somehow, the phallus gets top billing, as it were…
Just the other day, I was reading a newsletter that urged us all to eat more blueberries. A few recipes were suggested, but the writer said he prefers his blueberries in a bowel.
Frankly, I couldn’t stomach the idea.
4 | By: Ron Sullivan on June 20, 2008 at 10:03 AM
I had a gut feeling you’d react that way. Me too, now I think of it. And now I think I’ll stop thinking of it.
5 | By: Babz on June 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM
P.S. Wrong URL in previous post. But never mind; gave me an excuse to revisit and tell you about this Washington Post column on the demise of copyeditors . . .
http://tinyurl.com/6epa2j
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1 | By: Patrick on June 20, 2008 at 06:29 AM
Ezekiel and had a good laugh over that one!
With the toe bone connected
to the foot bone,
and the foot bone connected
to the ankle bone,
and the ankle bone connected
to the leg bone.......