
Friday, July 04, 2003
"Franklin was a master of what the French call amitié amoureuse, whose English translation, amorous friendship, gives only a hint of its true meaning: a delicious form of intimacy, expressed in exchanges of teasing kisses, tender embraces, intimate conversations and rhapsodic love letters, but not necessarily sexual congress."
from the article "Why he was a babe magnet" in the 7/7/03 special issue of Time Magazine on Ben Franklin.
The word Lascivious is 325 times less popular than stuff
Heard on an interivew on NPR about the new book about Ben Franklin
9:38:23 AM
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Saturday, June 14, 2003

Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Sally bought a pewter Eiffel Tower to reify the memories of her trip to Paris.
The word reify is 2,032 times less popular than stuff
another definition:
"Reify is not a word you hear in normal conversation. In fact, you probably don't hear it unless you have a philosopher in your house. It is about the security we feel through objectification. You can find reification in the irony of the Bhuddist sitting za-zen before a statue of Bhudda, in the symbolism of communion wafers, or in the salesman who hears Zig Ziglar but needs to buy his tapes to "get" his message. We reify when we go to a play or baseball game and bring home the program. We reify whenever we try to turn an experience, a thought, or a feeling, into a material object. Reification is why people buy souvenirs. "
12:22:52 PM
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Monday, January 20, 2003

Sunday, January 19, 2003