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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Gender of personified Death
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Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 15:14:23 GMT
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In article <3pk11m$6qe@clarknet.clark.net>,
*Expletive Deleted*) thedavid@clark.net ( <> wrote:
>Daniel von Brighoff (deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu) said:
>
>: Actually, Death isn't always invisible:  often, in both modern and
>: mediaeval iconography, a skeleton is clearly visible under the cloak.
>: Of course, except to an anatomist, a skeleton isn't clearly male or
>: female either.
>
>We always took that as male around here. 
>
Chauvinist oppressors!
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	 Daniel "Da" von Brighoff    /\          Dilettanten
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