Sex and the Single Bomb

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Bonnie objects:
"The point is that there is nothing seductive about an ICBM, nothing sexy
about thermonuclear weapons--however phallic (is that the appeal for you?)
"Systematic death," is made "sexy" for Will L.  How can that be?  I won't
go into the horror of describing the skin, the eyes, etc., as has been
the inclination (everyone's a novelist); it's unecessary; we already
know; we've already seen."

Quite right!  But (in a desperate attempt to return focus to the list's Object
of Veneration) TRP himself uses the imagery (sometimes straightforwardly,
sometimes ironically) as in the ref. in GR to Col Tibbets "tickling the clit
of Miss Enola Gay" (which was named for Tibbets' mother--I don't *think* TRP
knew that and wonder what it means if he did!).  And then there's the whole
phallic rocket business that is so central to Blicero and Gottfried, if not
Enzian.

So it is a male thing after all.  At the gym, I'm told women look at men's faces
and butts.  It is the men who are checking each other out in the locker rooms,
straight as well as not!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)