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From: Alex Gibbs <arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 16:06:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Rose of Sharon and Lily of the Valley
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In-Reply-To: nessus@mit.edu's message of Thu, 10 Feb 1994 10:35:54 -0500
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References: <CL046t.MvK@ucdavis.edu> <NESSUS.94Feb10103334@twitch.mit.edu>
Doug: > In article <CL046t.MvK@ucdavis.edu> wagreiner@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu writes: > > > I have always assumed this is just a way for her to say "I am really > > pretty." Roses and lillies are generally attractive things. > > I suppose that one should not also overlook the vaginal symbolism of > flowers, epecially in a song about sex. That and rose *buds* fit rather nicely into lilies. Seen the erotically animated flowers in _The Wall_ by Pink Floyd? What with the SoS Chap 2 Bible quotes I'm beginning to think my post about the same didn't make it. Just inDIGESTion I guess. ;) AlexGibbs arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.arizona.edu |\| | (~, |-| ~|~ |-| /-\ \/\/ |< "The quality of TV is not strained, it dropeth as the gentle ratings dropeth to a very tiny percentage share, and, lo, tis gone. <pause> Of course Shakespeare would have loved your rating system; 12th Night would have been lucky to have lasted one." - Max Headrom, last Max Headroom TV episode