Dirty Girl Things

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Sappho’s Exhortation to Learning
from Scott Horton’s blog, “No Comment”, on Harpers Magazine site (November 10, 2007)

Sappho, oil painting by Charles-Auguste Mengin (1877)

A handsome man guards his image a while;
a good man will one day take on beauty.

–Sappho (Σαπφω), The Exhortation to Learning (ca. 590 BCE)(W. Barnstone, transl.)

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Sincerely.
Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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"Boy meets girl, girl gets boy into pickle, boy gets pickle into girl." --Jack Woolford

Establishments where we procure toys to tease each other.

What we might be reading together in the bedchamber tonight.

We always make time for these viewing pleasures.