Bees and Fleas

[Meg Larson]

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> From: Paul DiFilippo <ac038 at osfn.rhilinet.gov>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Bees and Fleas
> Date: Tuesday, May 06, 1997 10:21 AM
> 
> 
> 
> Am I totally hallucinating, or do I recall from college course
> on the Metaphysicals that John Donne wrote a lascivious version
> of the Shakespeare poem, to wit:  Where the Flea sucks, there
> suck I"?  Note:  two questions above not mutually exclusive.
>
That's the name of the poem, I think, "The Flea."  I don't have a copy of
it handy, but I remember reading it in a British Lit course.  The prof
asked for interpretations, and one guy said, "I'm not sure what if this is
what it means, but it sounds like he's trying to hook up with some chick."

Hook up indeed . . .
;-)
Meg 
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