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offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-14 09:01 [#00088112]
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Knowing aphexs love of the old PH, it was kinda smooth to
get this in my email this morning (from dictionary.com ,
word of the day...)...

p.s. If you get a chance, give Foucaults Pendalum by Eco a
read... it's hard going in places, but well worth it...

pps .. Read some proper Foucault as well whilst you're at
it....why are all the people I love dead?...

Word of the Day for Thursday February 14, 2002:

philter \FIL-tur\, noun:
1. A potion or charm supposed to cause the person taking
it to
fall in love.
2. A potion or charm believed to have magic power.

transitive verb:
To enchant or bewitch with or as if with a magic
potion or
charm.

Some things you can feel coming. You don't fall in
love
because you fall in love; you fall in love because of
the
need, desperate, to fall in love. When you feel that
need,
you have to watch your step; like having drunk a
philter,
the kind that makes you fall in love with the first
thing
you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.
--Umberto Eco, [1]Foucault's Pendulum

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Philter is derived from Greek philtron, from
philein, "to
love," from philos, "dear, loving."



 


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