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Thread #130901 Message #2949261
Posted By: Bat Goddess
21-Jul-10 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Life on Robinhood Farm, Maine
Subject: RE: BS: Life on Robinhood Farm, Maine
And Dahlov has THE definitive chorus to "The Fire Ship" -- "She had a dark and roving eye and her hair hung down in ringalets. She was a nice girl, a decent girl, but BUILT ALONG RAKISH LINES." (Instead of "one of the rakish -- or roving -- kind".)
(Women were never referred to as rakes -- that was a male appellation. However, as she was being described in ship terminology, she was definitely "built along rakish lines".