I reread Point Counter Point after discovering that Dorothy L. Sayers wittely, intellectually and mostly gently pokes fun at the book and its author in The Documents of […]
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Dorothy L. Sayers & Aldous Huxley
25. August 2008 – 06:30
“Bedworthiness”
28. Januar 2008 – 11:28
In a letter dated 18 October 1944 – to Charles Williams – Dorothy L. Sayers, in a purely pornosophical tour de force, explains her views on the subject of BEDWORTHINESS:
The importance, dear Charles, of this subject in the sphere of literary criticism, arises from the fact that, in the present century, so […]
Pornosophical Heroines: Dorothy L. Sayers
17. Dezember 2007 – 10:54
(…) I have no news, except that - looking forward to the confidently-expected food-crisis, I have purchased two Hens. In their habits they display, respectively Sense and Sensibility, and I have therefore named them Elinor and Marianne. Elinor is a round, comfortable, motherly-looking little body, who lays one steady, regular, undistinguished egg per day, and […]
“Pornosophy”
9. Dezember 2007 – 11:57
1. The fornications of wisdom
2. The harlotry of wisdom
The unashamed exhibition of the mind’s workings (preferably one’s own), or of the results thereof, intended to cause mental &/or intellectual excitement and the indecent enflaming of the mind.
First usage of the word as an adjective [pornosophical] by James Joyce in Ulysses, Chapter 15 (Circe).
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“SNOOT”
12. Juni 2007 – 12:09
“SNOOT (n) (highly colloq) is this reviewer’s nuclear family’s nickname a clef for a really extreme usage fanatic, the sort of person whose idea of Sunday fun is to look for mistakes in Satire’s column’s prose itself. This reviewer’s family is roughly 70 percent SNOOT, which term itself derives from an acronym, […]
Monkey Business – Early-Morning-Musings of an Overheated Brain
16. Dezember 2006 – 08:59
I have been fascinated with the Internet from the moment I discovered it – somewhere about 1998 that was. The split second I understood how it worked my whole brain went Bingoooo! I came home from the library brimming over with my new discovery, and designed a website, sitting on […]
Definitively Hot
10. Dezember 2006 – 15:48
John Thaw, aka Inspector Morse. Candidate in the Hottest-over-40-actors list. Oder?
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The littlest Harlot
9. Dezember 2006 – 16:24
The original Barbie was Lilli, a popular cartoon-character in the German newspaper Bild Zeitung, and a sex-toy for adult men. Lilli was post-war, sassy and ambitious, and had no reservations talking about sex. She was a working girl, earning her own money as a secretary, adding to her budget by hanging out with […]
Fish/Fisch
18. November 2006 – 11:01
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