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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:16:59 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
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To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
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From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: don barton johnson
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: mascodagama
he was walking on hands, not his feet
seeing the world upside down was so neat
they said he was completely perverted
perspective is novel inverted
©Sean Devine & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997
http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/poetry16.htm
Just as a Satanist turns the crucifix upside down to invert Christian law, so
does the foot lover stand the human body on its head to affect whatever is
above by making love from below (Chapter: "Melting clocks, Melting Bodies"
from Joseph Lanza´s "Gravity" , Quartet Books , 1997 )
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After seeing the photographs of the reversable doll, Carolyn Kunin observed:
"I have seen something like this - - but not as a toy, on stage in an 18th
century opera. It was quite amusing, but I don't remember the specifics. It was
a "historical" staging, so probably something like this was done".
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