Sinister: love is a five-letter word

[Jeremy.Simon at xxx.com]

The reclusive American author's alter ego, Jeremy.Simon at JWT.com, took a
long draw on his cheroot, and exhaling began to ramble...

1) I have been struck recently by all this talk of love. In particular, the
idea of having a single perfect partner out there in the world, just
waiting to be found. Life as quest, constantly disappointing...

I was particularly intrigued by Arantxa's Spanish phrase "half an orange",
referring to ideal partners. It reminded me of a Classics lesson I was
taught long ago. I hazily remember learning about Plato's thesis on love,
"Symposium" but I was half asleep for much of my school years, and so
probably got it wrong. As I recall, Aristophanes expounds on his theory
that when the world was young, humans were actually these giant balls of
flesh that went rolling round the place, happy as larry. One dreadful day,
for reasons I don't fully understand, the balls were all cut in half,
leaving each half-sphere as the basic human form as we know it.

Aristophanes suggests that each half spends the rest of his/her life
searching for the other perfect match. When he/her finds that long lost
match, they unite and combine in perfect harmony, forming through the
medium of great sex the original fleshy mass.

But then again, what did they know. They were all Romans. Or something.

2) I think I'll leave the thread on female masturbation well alone. Just as
in real life, it's better to observe than take part.

3) In Trousers' last post, all of the abbreviation marks were replaced on
my computer with solid vertical lines, giving the whole page the look of
one of those old music rolls people used to entertain themselves with
before gramophones. Which I liked.

4) I hope everyone has seen the rebelstrange site. The photos of B&S are
ace. Stuart Murdoch grins like a thin-faced monkey.

That is all. I'm off to visit the Kirsty Smith website.

J. D. Salinger,
pleased because he has got "Plato", "Aristophanes" and "Kirsty Smith" on
the Sinister archive search.

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