TRTR(I.4) Manicentrism Continues

Erik T. Burns eburns at gmail.com
Tue May 10 16:12:18 CDT 2011


the section of TR i'm due to start this weekend features hands, heads,
queers & sterile couples as well as suicide jokes.

it must be a cocktail party at the Gaddises!



On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> While we're riffing: "Moby Dick", ' A Squeeze of the Hand'...
>
> Just the opposite of a nervous wringing of the hand. If I remember
> correctly, the kneading of the whale oil has notable autoerotic and
> homoerotic overtones ("squeezing the sperm") and leads to a kind of ecstasy
> or trance.
>
> Thomas
>
>



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