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Re: Birthday flora (becoming a "floweret")
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Dear Editors and List,
Shade gay? If he had been, the Great Beaver would have needed four
ping-pong
tables, not two.
No, John probably meant that he'd be pushing up the daisies.
Regards,
Tom(Rymour)
> Incidentally, VN's use of "floweret" here might seem to call into
question
> the notion that when Shade says he's "ready to become a floweret," he
means
> a homosexual like Kinbote.
> William Dane
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Shade gay? If he had been, the Great Beaver would have needed four
ping-pong
tables, not two.
No, John probably meant that he'd be pushing up the daisies.
Regards,
Tom(Rymour)
> Incidentally, VN's use of "floweret" here might seem to call into
question
> the notion that when Shade says he's "ready to become a floweret," he
means
> a homosexual like Kinbote.
> William Dane
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