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As Ed Cohen writes, "Basil's portrait of Dorian can embody his desire for the eponymous character, and yet a male homoerotic passion remains, in the dominant representational codes of the period, peccatum illude horribile non nominandum inter christanos--or, in a bad paraphrase of Lord Alfred Douglas, a love whose name the text dare not speak" (811).
See also Lindorfer, Peccatum Linguae, 32, who argues this was the first time that speech violations were seriously scrutinised in France.
In die Divina commedia sny 'n engel met die punt van sy swaard die letter P (vir die Latynse peccatum = sonde) op Dante se voorkop uit.
 
 
 
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