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[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Neato@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

le petite mort, if you will.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I don't mind if I do.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Partir, c'est mourir un peu

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

touche mon frere

[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I know Pepé le pew

[-] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I thought that was what intended by the author.

[-] Lame_One@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Jokes on him, I regret it even when I sleep

[-] jimmux@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago

This isn't the little death I asked for.

[-] Vode_An@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year 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).

[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 7 points 1 year 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.

[-] Vode_An@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year 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?

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] Vode_An@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I’ll check it out, sounds interesting

[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Vode_An@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Nightwish has entered the chat

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You're quite welcome

[-] snownyte@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] DarkenLM@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

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

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