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Josh January 12, 2017 at 2:26 am.
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JoshIt’s not important but I parsed the dialect in those Tresca edits a bit differently. I got a sense of a woman in a super controlled industrial setting who is somehow supposed to be a lesbian, and she is imaging/recalling encounters with a guy, while she is standing at work. He is behaving as male lesbian, not out of his preference or hers, but in some sort of a sympathetic way relative to the rules. And she is say “Wow, ooh, different with a man”.
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JoshPoor workers in general, and especially single women, where so exploited back in those days. Pre new-deal, pre-rights, the company owns everything…woman may have lived in some kind of barracks and had to promise to be only interested in women to get and keep the job. Losing the job might mean starvation or homelessness. But what you can sneak under your long skirt while you sort of keep working, you get to keep… I might be wrong, but that is the picture I got…hanging with the male socialist at work, so to speak.
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JoshWhat would her job description have been? Set type, edit, take correspondence, file papers, send telegrams…??
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JoshI felt that her LC form features – no use of punctuation marks, lots of use of letter phonetics, and a tendency towards classical language/verse forms.
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JoshIn the passages I read, she was mainly talking about oral sex. Not as a preference, but as what could be done during work – and she wasn’t able to meet outside of work.
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Joshexample: soldier = so love thy/die error
could be kind of a pun on literary sound, sex, and maybe the guy worked with e.g. printer machinery having something to do with die/stencil etc.
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