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