From: "Emmett, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Spiders


> I realize this has issue has by now taken numerous--but
> interesting--directions.Still, I would like to add here that of course
> spiders aren't just vaginal; in fact, the opening lines of a compelling
> movie YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS demonstrate that during the 17th
> century monkies themselves had vaginal associations. This in turn makes
> Congreve and Marston most suggestive. What is being sacrificed to the
> monkey of the mistress?    Paul Emmett
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> Subject: Spiders
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>        From: william godshalk [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>        Subject: Re: FW: vaginal spiders
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>        I just ran across this line in Congreve's Way of the World, IV,
> 336:
>        Petulant says, "Carry your mistress's monkey a spider." Brian
> Gibbons
>        compares Marston's "killing of spiders for my lady's monkey."
> Gibbons
>        suggests that the image is bawdy, but gives no more background.
>
>        Bill Godshalk
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