atdtda: 31 - pg 866 - invert
Paul Mackin
paul.mackin at verizon.net
Thu Apr 24 10:47:43 CDT 2008
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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