For Joe: more nasty puns

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) For Joe: more nasty puns
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:42:18 -0700
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Hey Joe.  If you wanted another Fruedian association in Wolfe, then the nam=
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of the narrator Horn offers a few.  I'm sure we've discussed the Shakespear=
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connotation of horns and cuckholdry, and the Horn as male genitals from=20
"Hornbus, you whore" of Nightside the long sun (which, I believe, if you wi=
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forgive my crudity, invokes fellatio).  Here is one more that might be just=20
coincidental: Horn falls in that big pit on the island.  If you buy my theo=
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that this recreates the vanished people by hybridizing man and tree, then H=
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acts as an impregnating phallus "lost in the big woods".  Unlike naming the=20
taverns "the cock" and "the bush", I am not willing to say that this Horn i=
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pit is intentional on Wolfe's part.  I just recall being traumatized by the=20
description of Jolenta's private parts as an unhatched chick or something i=
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The Claw of the Conciliator in the fifth grade or so.  That's a pretty scar=
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description to a young boy. And then there is that whole iron dingus scene =
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the Claw that always catches me by surprise.
Please forgive the crudity of this post.
Marc Aramini

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