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

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For a not-so-early cyborg, see Ch 14, "V. in Plove" . Cannot find my copy of 
V., so cannot give page references.

On Sun, August 22, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com 
wrote:



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................
>
> Or maybe Dryden, I learn when I get lucky with serendipitous "research".
> [Shakespeare, like Pynchon, connects
> to everything].....
>
> 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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