M&D SPOILER

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MASON & DIXON SPOILER








John Donne's The Flea is to be found at various sites on the Web, including


  http://www-chaos.umd.edu/ernie/flea.html - size 2K - 19 Sep 95

This being the site of "Chaos at Maryland", it seems just the right
pynchonesque site to get it from, doubly so.


John Donne: The Flea
              THE FLEA. Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little
that which thou
              deny'st me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in
this flea,
              our...
              http://www-chaos.umd.edu/ernie/flea.html - size 2K - 19 Sep 95




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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
>> --
>> Paul Di Filippo & Deborah Newton/2 Poplar St./Prov., RI 02906
>> "So far as the interests of the capitalist go it does not matter
>> whether he invests his money at home or abroad; it does not matter
>> whether his goods are manufactured in London or Timbuctoo." HG Wells