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Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



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Dating Tips from Aristotle or Why I am an Old Maid by Greek Standards

After pissing my time away downloading music and shooting the shit at an unneccessary long debate gab session, I am reading The Politics. I swore that I wouldn't engage in any of these activities this week, I guess all the more reason I need virtuous education from the politics and the nichomachean ethics. But this little section is too good not to post, Aristotle on setting out the criteria for the most productive and best marriage:

Further, it is advantageous with a view to moderation for women to be given in marriage when they are older, for they are held to be more licentious if they have practiced intercourse while young. Also, the bodies of males are held to be injured with respect to growth if they have intercourse while the seed is still growing; for there is a definite length of time for this as well, after which it is no longer plentiful. Hence it is fitting for women to unite in marriage around the age of eighteen, and men at thirty-seven (or a little before).
posted by lmjasinski at 11:11 PM