death by kiss

May 06, 2006 22:51

I'm not sure anyone here has asked, but for those who might have wondered about this odd term on my interest list:

"Eight centuries later and thousands of miles to the West, Pico della Mirandola arrived at a very similar conclusion, which he referred to as the mors osculi ("death by kiss"). By "death," he meant "corporal extinction" in a state of ( Read more... )

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twirlingtulip May 7 2006, 06:51:02 UTC
I had no idea...

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