"Inter Faeces..." Quote

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/4/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> At 2:19 PM -0800 2/4/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Yeats, moreover, alludes to the idea in "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop."
>
> Pretty obliquely, though.  As in
>
> 'Fair and foul are near of kin,
> And fair needs foul,' I cried.
>
> and in
>
> A woman can be proud and stiff
> When on love intent;
> But Love has pitched his mansion in
> The place of excrement
>
> ?
>
> I don't think it was childbirth whose location Crazy Jane had in mind
> with her particular geography lesson...

Along similar lines is this bit of dialogue from Season 5 of _The Sopranos_:

Paulie: Why do pissing, shitting and fucking all happen within a
two-inch radius?
Vito: They're all sources of pleasure?

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