It was only by tripping on shadows and feeling vapid equanimity that came after having absurdly given oneself over so entirely to the sensation of pulling on one's genitalia that a man actually knew anything.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
Notice also, with Munro, Lucretian phrases like principio, quod superest, his animadversis, nunc age, praeterea, nonne vides, contemplator, genitalia semina.
"The Student's Companion to Latin Authors"
George Middleton Thomas R. Mills
Might not the confusion of the eye with the genitalia have given a meaning to this statement?
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith