Word: lewd
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...lust switches on. Little Napoleon, terror-struck, stabs himself in the groin. Max-Pipifax makes it further, to bed with the empress, only to be eaten by her highness--who proceeds to throw up on his flesh. The two are hardly men, nor are the rabble of other lewd cavaliers, truly Phylissa's menagerie of beasts...
What's really lewd, obscene, perverse and generally captivating about these new letters is a series from Joyce to his wife Nora in the latter half of 1909. These letters will immediately become a part of that strange sub-genre of literature characterized mainly by soiled finger-marks on the margines of pages: the Dirty Parts. It's doubtful that these letters will mean anything to Joyce scholarship. They mostly suggest what Joyce-the-Man was like, clarify some affinities between Joyce and the characters of his novels, and map out the origins of his works, if not the works...
...example, in talking about Derek Sanderson, Gemme states, "Derek Sanderson won't allow sports fans or management to dictate how he wears his hair." She then goes on to say that it is Derek's flashy clothes, lewd lifestyle, and the like that have effected changes in player-management relations, and that have earned him a new kind of respect among sports fans...
John Wilmot was one of the most clever Court poets during the reign of Charles II, and in many ways he represents the very nature of the Restoration: he was lewd, selfish, disdainful and he had no sense whatsoever of right and wrong. In that era Hobbes made it fashionable to have a rational disregard for religion, the only binding force for an otherwise criminal aristocracy. Any power Parliament had gained during Cromwell's Commonwealth dissipated with the return of Charles II, for whom Rochester saved some of the most vicious barbs--as in this epitaph...
...then there's that venerable institution known as the Harvard Band, which mixes those traditional fight songs of eras past with suggestive (and sometimes downright lewd) halftime formations, as well as biting sarcasm about the state of the University, the nation or the world...