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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Jonathan Swift got there first:

"If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat."

Gulliver's Travels, Part 3 Chapter 2

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah but Swiftie was physically repulsed to nausea by his wife. He's the absolute poster boy for being in the closet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

TIL, and it makes sense.

[–] Theharpyeagle 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Man, I finally read that book a couple months ago. Way more pissing and shitting than I thought there'd be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Read Gargantua and Pantagruel next.