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[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

To: [clown prince]
From: [human decoder ring]
Subject: Uh...

Jamie-

Would you like to explain the disturbing seventeenth-century tentacle porn I found sitting on your desk? I gotta say, Robert Herrick was a seriously dirty old bastard...

-Doug

PS - here's the text, if you're going to try and claim you don't know what I'm talking about...

THE VINE.
by Robert Herrick

I DREAM'D this mortal part of mine
Was Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;
Which crawling one and every way,
Enthrall'd my dainty Lucia.
Me thought, her long small legs & thighs
I with my Tendrils did surprize;
Her Belly, Buttocks, and her Waste
By my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd:
About her head I writhing hung,
And with rich clusters (hid among
The leaves) her temples I behung:
So that my Lucia seem'd to me
Young Bacchus ravished by his tree.
My curles about her neck did craule,
And armes and hands they did enthrall:
So that she could not freely stir,
(All parts there made one prisoner.)
But when I crept with leaves to hide
Those parts, which maids keep unespy'd,
Such fleeting pleasures there I took,
That with the fancie I awook;
And found (Ah me!) this flesh of mine
More like a Stock then like a Vine.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah, that . . . was for a bit of a literary project I'm doing. Decided not to go with that one, obviously, but I must've forgotten to toss the copy I had.

Too disturbed, probably. I have this morbid curiosity about what exactly Herrick was smoking when he came up with that one, and whether or not it was what he thought he was smoking.

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[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Literary project, huh? About perverted seventeenth-century poets? And yeah, whatever he was smoking, it must have been the good stuff.

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[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

About exploring the "carpe diem" paradigm of the Romance poets, actually. Sheesh, to hear you tell it I'm trawling through the Norton anthologies looking for the dirty parts. :) Marvell's working a little bit better, but still not quite what I'm looking for.

And I dunno if I'd call it the "good" stuff, if that's the kind of hallucinations it was giving him. I'd've worn a cup for a week after a dream like that, just in case.

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Carpe diem, huh? Sieze the day? Anything in particular you're looking to sieze? ;-) Great, now I have this mental picture of you as Josh Charles, sounding your 'barbaric yawp'.

And yeah, I hear you. I guess "good" is kinda relative with hallucinogens.

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Hey, I don't make insinuations about your homework, do I?

. . . I mean, most of the time. :)