yet another dirty potsing from GAT

[neil]

An early non-derogatory use...

³Now, my dear,² Aurora implored, ³let me feel your tongue well in, and see
if you can make me spend like my Harry does. That¹s right, open it well and
lick the side up and down, especially the knob at the top. That¹s the
sensitive part. Delightful. I am sure you¹ll make a splendid cunt-sucker
with practice.²
­Anon, The Initiation of Aurora Trill, 1903 ( The Essential Guide to Classic
Literature I, Clifford J Scheiner, Wordsworth, London, 1996, 256)

--Neil Crawford


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> You've been warned, mind.  There's a parental discretion flag flying.
>
> My email filter has dedicated itself to protecting me from villainous company
> and low thoughts, which it supposes requires that it keep me from receiving
> emails from myself.  The bounce-back from ADS-L of this one isn't going to get
> through.
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> Cunt Sucker.
>
> This very useful term is in HDAS in its pejorative sense (#2) only from 1964,
> citing William Burroughs (no surprise).  In the descriptive sense, (#1), HDAS
> has a stray English citation from 1868, then a US cite from 1940.  A 1942 cite
> from Henry Miller sure sounds pejorative, but no doubt the full unquoted
> passage justifies putting it in #1.  Jonathon's Cassell's has 1960+ for the
> pejorative, 1940+ for the descriptive.
>
> New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac from the Collectiuons of the
> New York City Department of Records/Municipal Archives (NY: Aperture, 2006)
> reproduces photos taken in the first third of the 20th century by a city
> employe.  A phtot dated September 18, 1911 shows a chalkboard in a workroom
> with the message
>
> Connolly don't want to work [several illegible words] a day for a fuck like
> the English Cunt Sucker.  (page 30)
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ.
> Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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