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[-] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"a little death" most notably referenced by ~~shakespeare~~ THE FRENCH means orgasm

[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

le petite mort, if you will.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I don't mind if I do.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Partir, c'est mourir un peu

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Do you have a reference for the citation? It's quite interesting, 'petite mort' has come to describe the psychological effects of rape...

[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

I think you mean "most notably by the French" 😌

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

touche mon frere

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I thought that was what intended by the author.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

"And if you decide to skip dying for a single day, you'll regret being alive"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Jokes on him, I regret it even when I sleep

[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

This isn't the little death I asked for.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

If death is like sleeping sign me up (it’s not, but an eternal nap with the occasional dream would be pretty cozy ngl).

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

You just currently in one of your longer occasionally dreams. Don’t worry, we all wake up sometime.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of a favorite Shakey Graves lyric: "Night is to day as death is to dreaming." I love that line, even though I still don't really know what he means. It also just flows very well in the song, so that helps.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Sounds like he had a rather dark view the night. I don’t understand it, but it sounds like he intended to contrast the positive connotations of life and day (bright, warm, ect) with the opposites. Idk, what do you think he meant?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Well, night and day are two sides of the same eternally flipping coin, an endless cycle, back and forth forever. But dreaming isn't the flip-side of death, life is. So maybe he's saying that "life is just a dream"? Or death is dreaming, but without light? Idk, but it's from a sleep/dream-themed concept album called Can't Wake Up. I highly recommend it, it got no attention anywhere but it's easily one of my favorite albums of the last five years.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I’ll check it out, sounds interesting

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Nah, it's more like paralyzed regenerative hallucinations with long pauses between episodes. Unless you sleepwalk; then death is definitely a possibility.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

So, can we say that people have all died now? If sleep is just a temporary death, one we can wake up from, then that means everyone has died.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Finally, I can answer "Yes" on the greatest test of all questionnaires.

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