[ilds] Count Banubula tells it straight.

[Bruce Redwine]

“Crepuscular” I added to my vocabulary after reading the Quartet at a tender age.  Scobie wanders about Alex under the influence of a “full moon,” when, presumably, in search of circumscribed or uncircumscribed penises.  He also has an obsession with “foreskins.”  So Richard has a point.  And maybe all this is part of the “revolt,” as David mentions.

Bruce


> On May 25, 2016, at 11:59 PM, Richard Pine <pinedurrellcorfu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm interested that you think 'crepuscular' an obscure term. And as you use the term 'harvest moon' do you know that it was a Victorian codeword for an uncircumcised penis?
> RP
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Denise Tart & David Green <dtart at bigpond.net.au <mailto:dtart at bigpond.net.au>> wrote:
> Haven't you noticed Charlock that most things in life happen just outside one's range of vision? One has to see them out of the corner of one's eye. And any one thing could effect any number of others? I mean there seem to be always a dozen perfectly appropriate explanations to every phenomenon. That is what makes our reasoning minds so unsatisfactory; and yet, they are all we've got, this shabby piece of equipment."
> 
> Count Banubula to Charlock in a bar (of course) p 100 Faber Hardback ed, 1968.
> 
> The count maybe right, indeed, this struck me as so true, the big harvest moon you just can't touch. But Charlock has the Dactyl, his Abel or enabler, I Should say.
> This book is dotted with such Philosophic gems and obscure Latinate words like crepuscular, part, perhaps of his Mediterranean revolt against northern Saxon verbal 'Puritanism'. Stay with this book, it delivers like the sun slowly rising over a broadening landscape.
> 
> David Whitewine
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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