From: Atalanta Pendragon Area: MagickNet To: Farrell McGovern 17 Jun 96 09:46:56 Subject: Re: love ... no ... consumption UpdReq FM> The big thing about the English language is IK> FM> of it's own. It is the first predatory language... IK> Which mostly just complicates the magickal IK> practitioner's job. Elsewhere they construct a formula IK> and have some idea what it will do. With English, come IK> back in a few years and everyone's minds have been IK> gobbled up by .... FM> Read SNOWCRASH by Neil Stephenson! EVERYBODY should read Snow Crash! I have an autographed copy, & I'm looking for an animated gif of static for my website 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Paul Hume Area: MagickNet To: Falcon 17 Jun 96 09:20:48 Subject: love UpdReq Falcon - Not ante from Latin (before) but anti- from Greek. So ex and other LAtin prepositions don't figure into it. Anteros is not the opposite of love (unless we are getting into semantic hair splitting about what opposites are) - it is the absence, the void, even the distaste, which replaces love in the mind/spirit after love has been fulfilled, again, keeping in mind that this is eros we are discussing, at least fulfilled erotically. It may be seen as a longer term form of post-coital tristesse, perhaps. Paul 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718