Pg. 534 of David Markson’s copy of The Complete Greek Drama: Volume Two by Various (Ed. Whitney J. Oates & Eugene O’Neill, Jr.):
On which Markson drew a line and a check in the margin next to a paragraph in the endnotes of the play The Knights by Aristophanes:
“18. The original here contains, and the translation omits, a number of details on the new form of vice. Only a pedant would demand their inclusion, for like many other parts of this play they are totally deficient in humour. Cunnilingual activities are not particularly new nowadays anyway, and our psychologists will inform the curious more thoroughly and more reliably than Aristophanes.”
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While we’re on the subject of cunnilingus…
“And what a liar’s Loosh. Pox upon tidiness, true metier’s this. Slurp and burble here till dawn.
So why’s he beached and panting in moments instead? Medical profession looked into the effects of smoking on cunnilingus?
‘Fucking cigarettes. Man’s reach should exceed his gasp.’
‘Oh, Lord.’
Vaginal slaver’s all over his face where he’s ascending. Slop it all over Cornford’s, orifice to orifice in wanton wet initiation.”
– David Markson, Springer’s Progress, pg. 32.