V-2nd, Misc.; Shafting Bongo-Shaftesbury

[Ian Livingston]

Excellent find, Mark. An early cyborg, indeed!

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have had this nagging befogged memory, from a college course I took,  that a
> Shaftesbury was savagely
>
> satirized by Alexander Pope.....................but I was wrong, not having
> studied hard enough................
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> Or maybe Dryden, I learn when I get lucky with serendipitous "research".
> [Shakespeare, like Pynchon, connects
> to everything].....
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> Seems Dryden, foreechoing P's ass-falling off when unscrewed joke and Bongo-S
> and the mechanical doll....DID satirize
> The Earl of Shaftesbury in a work called "The Medall"....Dryden wrote that The
> Earl had a faucet installed in his abdomen to drain
>
> ill humors!.....
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