You'll all have to excuse me these days as I'm feeling particularly antisocial. Not because I'm in a bad mood or hate people or anything, it's more a "spend more time alone with myself" kind of deal. For this reason I believe I have missed Ruby's play (unless it's on Sunday as well in which case I'll go)
However, I just had to cite this from Eve Sedgewick's work cuz it totally cracked me up. She's talking about Dickens' Our Mutual Friend here. She's a very well respected academic critic talking about homosocial desire in a very serious fashion.
"And those golden dust heaps are the emblem of a wholly abstracted anality: they do not refer us to any individual or sentient anus."
Sentient anus ahahahahah! I'll be laughing for days.