This thread has many twists, but the mention of Emily reminded me of something I've often thought.
Reticence is the circuitous way to full disclosure, hence the most erotic route of all.
Emily knew. “tell it slant…success in circuit lies" – this is how to touch people, how to provoke the physical arousal she describes in that famous letter:
"If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way".
That’s no virgin comment! That’s living holy in the body.
Cally
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