Wednesday, October 02, 2002

things aren’t presently at maximum

things aren’t presently at maximum enjoyment quotient.  however, i just opened one of my favorite books to a random page, as i am wont to do, for a sort of read on reality, like throwing the i ching with a book.  my eye imediately fell upon the following passage.  i find it instructive, if soberingly cautionary.

.16 venereal disease, VD, social disease, Cupid’s itch or Venus’ curse, dose [slang]; syphilis, syph [informal], syphil(o)-, pox, great pox, French disease or pox or plague [archaic], Italian or Spanish pox [archaic], morbus Gallicus [L]; acquired syphilis, congenital syphilis; primary or secondary or tertiary syphilis, latent syphilis, constitutional syphilis; paresis, general paresis, paralytic dementia, cerebral tabes, syphilitic meningoencephalitis; tabes, tabes dorsales, syphilitic posterior spinal sclerosis, locomotopr ataxia; gonorrhea, clap or claps [both slang], dose of clap or claps [slang]; chancre, hard chancre, chancroid, simple chancre, soft chancre; granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, pudendal ulcer; lymphogranuloma venereum, Frei’s disease, nicolas-Favre disease, fifth venereal disease, climatic bubo, tropical bubo; balanitis gangrenosa.

Okay!  not only do i feel a lot better, a whole bunch of impertinent querstions are now crowding my brains.  Roget’s comes through again.