8.07.2012

souls and bodies

August 7: lido
When I was a kid, I thought that the height of sophistication would be to attend a casually fashionable luau dinner-dance on the Lido Deck of the Love Boat....

closely lay thy lips to mine,
And let our souls and bodies join:
Let me suck thy balmy breath,
And fainting, glory in my death.
Take me dying to thy arms,
Ah me! I die with pleasing pain,
O kindle me to life again...

[William Pattison, "The Enjoyment," {1728}, from Poetica Erotica, T.R. Smith, ed.]

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