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Sunday, June 01, 2014
A Big Bore
Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922-2009), "Phallic Poetry," Greek in a Cold Climate (Savage: Barnes & Noble Books, 1991), pp. 62-69 (at 62):
[O]bscenity has been so long all the rage that it is becoming as big a bore as prudery was a century ago...