And they call it "Tom Swiftie" because... one for the MOMH

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., tanwo at h... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 
> > Gives a whole new meaning to "Do not go gently into that good 
> night,"
> > don't it?
> > 
> > --Amanda, going "eeuuuwww"
> 
> Shakespeare???? In which case I offer you -
> 
>      "You were conducted to a gentle bath"   (Coriolanus)
> 
> Double-eeuuuww!
> 
> Wotan  :))

"Do not go gentle" is by Dylan Thomas (Welsh).  So both of these 
writers are familiar with the double meaning, unless it's very new 
slang.  Sounds like the basis of a PhD dissertation to me.  Imagery of 
maggots in British poetry.

Amy Z