Jon Smithie
Tribune
I tried to read Thomas Hardy when I was a callow youth, I really did, but I couldn't penetrate Tess more than a chapter's worth. Had I understood this expression, I might have continued. I'm not the most perceptive of humans but at least I know what he's talking about now.beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer,
Or maybe I'm just starting to read to much into things. I mean, sometimes rubber is just rubber, after all.Roll out your rubber
I remember one single thing from first year Latin and it is this line by Catullus:But you, because you happen to read about "many thousands of kisses," you think I'm not a man? Fuck you, boys, up the butt and in the mouth!
"Da mihi basia mille, deinde centum." "Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred."