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schmericaReading from my books on Antarctica that came yesterday, I came across this passage, while it's talking about various exploration expeditions:
One of Taff's rare appearances as anything but the Fifth Man is in Beryl Bainbridge's The Birthday Boys, a novel published in 1991. Hanging on the end of a rope with Scott in the Discovery days, Taff clings to the formalities of rank. "Being down a crevasse together," he maintains, "is no excuse for stepping out of line." When I asked Bainbridge why she gave Evans an erection at that point she produced scientific evidence that when suspended down crevasses, men do get erections.
[From Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler.]
Unfortunately, my google skills have failed me once again, and none of the various search strings I have tried have given me any more details about this phenomenon. BOO.
On the other hand, I have learned that the search results for "'ice crevasse' erections" brings up nothing but Due South fanfiction. Hee.
One of Taff's rare appearances as anything but the Fifth Man is in Beryl Bainbridge's The Birthday Boys, a novel published in 1991. Hanging on the end of a rope with Scott in the Discovery days, Taff clings to the formalities of rank. "Being down a crevasse together," he maintains, "is no excuse for stepping out of line." When I asked Bainbridge why she gave Evans an erection at that point she produced scientific evidence that when suspended down crevasses, men do get erections.
[From Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler.]
Unfortunately, my google skills have failed me once again, and none of the various search strings I have tried have given me any more details about this phenomenon. BOO.
On the other hand, I have learned that the search results for "'ice crevasse' erections" brings up nothing but Due South fanfiction. Hee.
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30/9/06 19:37 (UTC)*moons some more over your icon*