25 October 2009

Out, Damn'd Blot or What The Angel Saw

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Jonathan Swift's 'The Lady’s Dressing Room' portrays two ways to regard the blotist.

The entire poem can be read here. These are its concluding lines:

Thus finishing his grand survey,
Disgusted Strephon stole away
Repeating in his amorous fits,
Oh! Celia, Celia, Celia shits!

But vengeance, Goddess never sleeping,
Soon punished Strephon for his peeping:
His foul Imagination links
Each dame he see with all her stinks;
And, if unsavory odors fly,
Conceives a lady standing by.
All women his description fits,
And both ideas jump like wits
By vicious fancy coupled fast,
And still appearing in contrast.

I pity wretched Strephon blind
To all the charms of female kind.
Should I the Queen of Love refuse
Because she rose from stinking ooze?
To him that looks behind the scene
Satira’s but some pocky queen.
When Celia in her glory shows,
If Strephon would but stop his nose
(Who now so impiously blasphemes
Her ointments, daubs, and paints and creams,
Her washes, slops, and every clout
With which he makes so foul a rout),
He soon would learn to think like me
And bless his ravished sight to see
Such order from confusion sprung,
Such gaudy tulips raised from dung.

In our time, another archaic sounding name, Quilton, appears on shopper shelves with angel view and a blotter worthy of our blot.

On the Quilton ("Loves your bum") website, on the guest book page, Sarah-jane updates the paean thus :

Posted by Sarah-jane on October 15th 2009
Thankyou to the Quilton Gods above for makeing such a perfect paper.
As all us women know soft toilet paper is a girls best freind.


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