In article <1998062216191800.MAA24036@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
turquoiseb@aol.com (TurquoiseB) wrote:
> I wrote:
> >>Am I the only one who sees some serious questions inherent in the
> >>subject's choice of metaphor, what it says about how she sees the
> >>world, and her perception of her role in it?
>
> John Stanley:
> >You got sumfin against penises?
For the record, all you guys, "detumesce" refers to the
subsidence of a swelling. It *can* be used to refer to the
wilting of an erection, but it can also be used to mean
(concretely or metphorically) the collapse of anything that had
previously been inflated.
Recently Barry used the image of an inflated balloon to
metaphorically represent an inflated ego and/or the products
thereof. I don't think anyone suspected him of talking about
real balloons.
I'm amused at the assumptions being made here.
I really don't know, nor do I *want* to know, whether Andrew gets
an erection when he writes his posts, which then withers when he
reads mine. If that's the case, it's his problem.
I have good reason to think the inflated balloon of his ego gets
routinely, er, pricked on this newsgroup. He has an apparently
endless supply of patches, but that multiply mended balloon is
getting stretched *very* thin; it doesn't have the resilience it
once did. His most recent posts have been practically
incoherent.
> Not really. I was simply making the point that someone who
> feels that her role in life is to detumesce them just might... :-)
I do enjoy detumescing metaphorical dicks (male or female) when
they're waved around menacingly once too often, especially when
their owners attempt to use them to commit forcible rape.
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+ Judy Stein * The Author's Friend * jstein@panix.com +
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Originally Posted:
From: jstein@panix.com (Judy Stein)
Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Subject: Re: A Message To Mrs. Stein and Mr. Skolnik
Date: 22 Jun 1998 19:16:07 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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