Tom Colket wrote:
> Nancy wrote:
> N> the term "assaults" remains a violent term.
>  
> Also Tiresias says, "And I Tiresias have foresuffered all/Enacted on 
> this same divan or bed;". So what Tiresias sees between the typist and 
> the young man makes him think about suffering.
    But what the typist says -- 
> 'Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.' 
-- doesn't line up very well with that suffering or, for that matter, 
with a violent assault. You have to ask: who does suffer? Pretty 
clearly, if the small house agent's clerk and/or the typist are 
suffering, they don't know it.

Ken A