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Could be a design statement, but I'm going with making-up error: the patterned part of a new pair of socks comes on the soles, I discover when I put them on, and would be pretty much invisible even were I to be wearing the lightest and strappiest of sandals.
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No - no - (Frankie Howerd voice) - don't mock: Three colours rule this autumn: mustard, wine and storm grey. As I said to partner when he apprised me of this intelligence, it's a whole other world.
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Paging Virginia: Military history: not just for men:
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. A scene in a battle-field is more important than a scene in a shop - everywhere and much more subtly the difference of value persists.
Okay, am ambivalent and IAMC, because there is no reason why women shouldn't write about war, but I also feel there can be a buying in to that scale of values.
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I do feel that Jacqueline Rose could have taken a rather larger codfish to this:
For Leader it is a matter of "basics" that meaning fails when the function of the father has not occupied its proper place. Without it, the child is bound to a maternal register, awash in a sea of plenty with no get-out clause, a world in which the child can believe it is everything for the mother (as well as the reverse). In such a world, there is no symbolic register because the father has not intervened to mark the place of the third, he has not imposed his "phallic law".
than just going in a somewhat ladylike fashion that
Leader's commitment to this account, which comes from early Lacan, seems to be utterly untroubled by the feminist critique it has received - I found myself wincing as he blithely described the need to subject the mother to a "force" beyond her, to "carve" up the world of meaning, and "pin down" her desire.
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And in the realm of Teh Symbolik, I do not know what to make of the story about a MP's wife stealing his girlfriend's pussy: John Hemming's wife guilty of stealing kitten.
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