atdtda: 31 - pg 866 - invert

[Paul Mackin]

Bekah wrote:
> Re Jenny Invert:
>
> Seems the term "invert" is used in homosexual parlance.

I think Proust used the term that way --the French equivalent, that 
is--especially in the earlier books. By the time of Sodom and Gomorrah 
he was using "homosexual."

Here's a question: a few lines later on the page the talk is about the 
chord progression on Bevis' ukulele. Does the INVERSION  of the usual 
II-V-I order have anything to do with Jenny or homosexuality?

P.


>
> "Sexual inversion (used by Krafft-Ebing and also Havelock Ellis and 
> John Addington Symonds in "Sexual Inversion", 1897. Popularised by 
> Radclyffe Hall's use of it in her novel The Well of Loneliness.)"
>
> >>>>>snip>>>>>
> "These terms describe individuals for whom the sex of the psyche is 
> the opposite of that of the genitals (as with Ulrich's Urnings). The 
> female invert is therefore masculine and the male invert is feminine. 
> Traits of inversion include homosexual erotic attraction, temperament, 
> and behavior; sometimes inversion can affect career choice and even 
> anatomic structure. Krafft-Ebing, drawing on the earlier writings of 
> Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, described male inverts with varying degrees of 
> effeminacy, from Effemination in which a man has a distinctly feminine 
> demeanor, to Androgyny in which a man is so effeminate that he can 
> even has feminine bodily characteristics like rounded hips."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
>
> Could Jenny have been a masculine type lesbian?
>
> Bekah
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Bekah wrote:
>>
>> 866.6  Jenny Invert
>> The inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp 
>> first issued on May 10, 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 
>> airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed 
>> upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American 
>> philately. Only 100 of the inverts were ever found, making this error 
>> one of the most prized in all philately; an inverted Jenny was sold 
>> at a Robert A. Siegel auction in November 2007 for US$977,500.[1] A 
>> block of four inverted Jennys was also sold at a Robert A. Siegel 
>> auction in October 2005 for US$2.7m.[2] In December of 2007, a mint, 
>> never hinged example, meaning one not previously affixed to a stamp 
>> album, was sold to an unidentified Wall Street executive for 
>> $825,000.[3] The broker of the sale says the buyer is a collector who 
>> lost the auction the previous month mentioned above.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny
>>
>> ME:  needless to say it reminds me of Pierce Inverarity
>>
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