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Letter: Anatomy lesson

Michael Paffard
Saturday 12 June 1999 23:02 BST
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HASN'T Ruth Padel (Sunday Poem, Culture, 6 June) missed half the fun of Elma Mitchell's "Thoughts after Ruskin"? He did associate women with "lilies and roses" but also with smooth marble Greek goddesses. When, famously, on his wedding night he discovered that Effie had a "hairy cranny" he was so shocked he was unable to consummate the marriage.

MICHAEL PAFFARD

Keele, Staffordshire

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