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1RickHarsch
Editado: Abr 27, 2013, 2:38 pm

After the seventy-third mention of venereal strabismus in Earthly Powers, I finally checked Google, and what should I find but our very own Portland Anna explaining it in another group years ago. A variation on cross-eyed, at least one eye fixed while the other wanders or vice versa, and of a kind that is considered comely in a woman.

2quicksiva
Abr 15, 2013, 5:57 pm

I agree.

3anna_in_pdx
Abr 15, 2013, 6:30 pm

Yes! I had a lot of fun looking it up. Wow, what a strange term. Sadly, a lot of charming dated terms are no longer in widespread use.

4Macumbeira
Abr 16, 2013, 12:50 am

All the women seem to be afflicted by it in EP ?

5RickHarsch
Abr 16, 2013, 4:51 am

Oh no, just a few...

6Macumbeira
Abr 16, 2013, 11:09 am

I liked this explanation from Cheryl :

That's a tough one. 'Venerean' and 'venereal' and similar words usually
have something to do with sex. Strabismus is sometimes called 'wandering
eye'. 'Wandering eye' can also mean being unfaithful, or at least paying
rather too much attention to members of the opposite sex other than the
one you are married to, engaged to, or otherwise committed to.

Perhaps Hortense liked sex and was always eyeing up lots of different
attractive men?

7RickHarsch
Abr 16, 2013, 2:03 pm

We can't assume anything random in this book, even the name, tense whore, but that being so, I don't yet have an explanation that makes it work. Hortense wandered so her husband's infertility would go unknown and he would have his male heir. But I don't yet know what horrors lie in wait for her as WWII begins. I suspect it won't be pleasant.

8Macumbeira
Abr 16, 2013, 2:30 pm

Don't give anything away !! I am only at Hortense mariage.
The book reads smoothly, is very funny at times and I wonder where it is going.
But Norman douglas is obvious the bad one : )

9RickHarsch
Abr 16, 2013, 2:59 pm

Oh, so she hasn't joined the circus yet?

10Macumbeira
Abr 16, 2013, 9:38 pm

Lol

11RickHarsch
Abr 17, 2013, 6:38 am

Has Norman Douglas undergone his abortion yet?

12Macumbeira
Abr 17, 2013, 11:31 am

Nah, I put the book away, you spoiled it. I taught he was going to have his twins and raise them on the island of caprice

13LolaWalser
Abr 27, 2013, 11:53 am

Well, I for one am glad because with Norm for daddy those boys would be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

Before their seventh birthday.