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Pastimes : May Day, also known as Beltane -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: E who wrote (598)4/28/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 2063
 
Whence all this jealousy, this possessiveness, these genteel niceties, this touchy masculine honor (duels, indeed!), and this language that reads like a translation from the French of Alexander Dumas??

Whither has the spirit of orgiastic pagan Beltane departed? This old voyeuse summons the poet Yeats to help revive it:

There all the golden codgers lay,
There the silver dew,
And the great water sighed for love,
And the wind sighed too.
Man-picker Niamh leant and sighed
By Oisin on the grass;
There sighed amid his choir of love
Tall Phythagoras.
Plotinus came and looked about,
The salt-flakes on his breast,
And having stretched and yawned awhile
Lay sighing like the rest...
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Down the mountain walls
From where Pan's cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.



To: E who wrote (598)4/28/1999 6:24:00 AM
From: Edwarda  Respond to of 2063
 
I note with some trepidation, however, that the fair Edwarda is not hereabout this evening

While you were tarrying, the fair Edwarda was making hay!

Ha ha ha!



To: E who wrote (598)4/28/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 2063
 
I would adore to dally with thee this morn and recount your multitudinous charms, but it would take hours even to begin to lay the starting foundation of preparing to tell how I adore thee. And if I don't get this d*** response to defendant's motion to dismiss finished and filed by noon today, I will have a very unhappy judge which result in a VERY unhappy client. So I must defer the joy of dwelling for countless hours on your delights until the future.

'till then, my only adored,

From what had better be YOUR only adored . . .