Yoshie:
> > Walt Whitman used the term "adhesiveness" (in contrast to heterosexual > > "amativeness"), but outside his poetry it sounds like Scotch tape. > > :-0
me:
> but it reminds me of duct tape. And we know that duct tape is like the > Force: not only does it hold the universe together, but there's a Dark > side and a Light side. > > by the way, here are some synonyms for adhesiveness: tackiness, > glueyness, gumminess. Why didn't Whitman use one of those in his > samplers? (viscidness, anyone?)
Yoshie:
Oh, Jim, I knew there was no poetry in you when the title of a feminist documentary reminded you of an issue of Playboy. :-0
I hope you knew I was joking... anyway a good term for "adhesiveness" is "magnetism. and I do have poetry in my soul: There once was a man from Nantucket who said to his wife...
BTW, to understand why Iran, as well as Arab society, is more erotically interesting than the West, . . .
I'm sure that to many in Arab and Persian societies, there's something more erotically interesting about the West than their own societies. The grass on the other side of the fence is more erotic. That's because people are usually pretty damn ignorant of other cultures and being a tourist doesn't help. -- Jim Devine / "... the greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism." -- Emma Goldman.
