intermezzo

De oostenrijkse psychiater was er bang voor maar Lawrence Durrell liet zich niet afschrikken:

Mandrake root

Vagina Dentata I love you so,
You are wide as my dreams are long,
Like the kipling hiss of the cobra,
Or the screams of Fay Wray in King Kong.

Vestal of fire lethargic
Whose seminal doctrines extract
The rivets from Caliban’s backbone
To leave him less fiction than fact.

Aphrodite Urania we need you
To lighten the people’s path,
By the marvelous insights of Crippen
Or the Brides in the Bath.

O precious pudendum of seeming,
We come from the Gullible Isles,
Where the cannibal complexes frolic
And the the Mona Lisa smiles.