ABSTRACT
Let us note that this is not a merely formal relation, a sort of framework for expression; it is on the contrary an axiological one, embodying essential values. Not only the specific speech-act, in conjunction with the repetition of ‘my’, hints at a desire for identification, but also the pun on ‘base’, together with the adjective ‘chaste’, makes clear that the opposition high/ low must be read primarily as a clash between good and evil or virtue and vice, and ultimately as a spatial figuration of power, foregrounded also by the metaphors of the ‘bully boy’ and the bird of prey.
