TRTR(I.4) Manicentrism Continues

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Tue May 10 16:14:50 CDT 2011


On 5/10/2011 4:46 PM, Thomas Eckhardt 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
>
>
The hand represents loss and the hand represents gain.

Hand over the dough.

Monty handed Rommel his ass at Alemain.  Here's your ass general. 
(Thomas Pynchon)



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