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'The Mill in Popular Metaphor from Chaucer to the Present Day. ' SFQ 33(1 969), 69-79. Explores the uses of the mill as an erotic metaphor, deriving from the time when wheat-grinding 'was seen as analogous to the creative act' (p 70).

For the sexual symbolism of the mandorla, see Elizabeth Blackledge, The Story of V: Opening Pandora's Box (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2003)

verborgen erotische beeldentaal en codegebruik in de schilderkunst van die periode je weet wel twee vingers gekruist met een vis in de buurt betekent dit en gesneden brood met daarnaast in de verte een bootje op de vijver betekent dat.

"Our Three-Volume Novel at a Glance", a cartoon by Priestman Atkinson, from the Punch Almanack for 1885 (which would have been published in late 1884). This is a jocular look at some clichéd expressions which were overused in the popular literature of the time. It contains absurd literalistic interpretations of a number of conventional metaphors, accompanied by some outrageous visual puns. In the nineteenth century, popular novels often appeared in three-volume editions when first published, in order to allow three customers of commercial "circulating libraries" to be reading parts of the book simultaneously. I've abridged the second and third "volumes" of the cartoon in this scan. [1]