mdmd(4) - Notes

Brian D. McCary bdm at storz.com
Sun Jul 20 13:13:04 CDT 1997


> From amazing at mail.utexas.edu Sat Jul 19 02:53 CDT 1997
> 
> Yeah but.  Orange girls were an 18th century commonplace in England (17th,
> too, I believe).  They haunted the cheap seats of the theaters and the
> Tyburn crowds (Hogarth shows 'em in both places, I believe), ostensibly
> selling oranges, but everyone knew what they were *really* selling.

Ya' know, that makes sense.  Of course, perhaps what they were selling was a 
cheap but temporary trip to Eden?

Brian McCary



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