More questions on Onegin

[Jules Levin]

At 08:55 PM 4/5/2006, you wrote:

>And if Tatyana were to know about homosexuality (or even sexuality) 
>as an unmarried girl, where would this knowledge come from? Were 
>there any books on her shelf that would enlighten her, or can we 
>expect her nanny teach her, or maybe her mother?
>Alina Israeli

Perhaps from seeing dogs in the road and stallions in the field 
engaging in homosexual activity...;-)  Certainly the public 
heterosexual copulation of animals was a fixture of both town and 
countryside a hundred years ago.  But maybe genteel young ladies were 
expected not to look.
But would Tatyana have read Leviticus?   Homosexual-ITY isn't 
mentioned of course, but the behavior is.   And this suggestion seems to
return us to a previous topic...
Jules Levin 

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