Very, Very Misc. "nether bifurcation"

[Mark Kohut]

In major Cornell Prof E. A. Burtt's book, The Metaphysical
Foundations of Modern Science, orig pubbed in flapper Gatsby era 1924
((revised in 1932, the paper edition I have), a copy of which I have
found and want to look
at re Pynchon and science and the Enlightenment

.....there is THIS on the first page:   "Philosophers never succeed in
getting quite outside the ideas
of their time so as to look at them objectively--this would, indeed,
be too much to expect. Neither do maidens
who bob their hair and make more obvious their nether bifurcation see
themselves through the eyes of
an elderly Puritan matron."

What a phrase in such a book, eh,-- in 1924?  What a yoking
association. 'As above, so below", indeed.
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