Archive for July 23rd, 2012
noted without comment: il più grande fabbro
From the new edition of Stephen Spender’s journals:
To be totally honest now, I should ask whether Auden was not a bit envious of me because I had a large penis. He was certainly affected by this and mentioned it mockingly on many occasions. He explained my attraction for certain women as due to this. ‘How could they possibly know?’ I asked once. He looked down his nose with his sly boyish expression and said ‘They do.’
