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Perelandra wrote:I enjoyed the article.
Although I still don't understand your name and have wondered about it.
That is, pliers used to work in the material of love (or alternatively, used to work on material, with love).
Kinda what I thought. Our names are not too dissimilar, then.erosoplier wrote:It’s sure to be a bit of an anti-climax to hear my name explained, but what can I say? I thought it was quite tricky when I made it up.
It’s like eros-o-plier.
Which is kind of like multi-plier
Maybe my name is hard to get because I’m not very good at doing what it suggests I’m supposed to be doing, but first of all it’s just a corny, abbreviated way of saying “eros multiplier,” and the corniness hopefully helps ameliorate and compensate for the fact that it’s a rather pretentious meaning to take on in a name for one’s self.
But wait, there’s more!
Also, “pliers” are a tool used to do detailed and precise (or, as is often the case, rough and crude) work on various materials and objects. So “eros-o-plier” is a kind of corny commercialised name (think brand-speak like “grind-o-matic” or “dust-o-matic” etc) for love pliers. That is, pliers used to work in the material of love (or alternatively, used to work on material, with love). And again, I was relying on the corniness factor inherent in the tacky name to signal that I’m trying to not take myself too seriously about it all.
Joe Hillshoist wrote:That is, pliers used to work in the material of love (or alternatively, used to work on material, with love).
Thanks for that disturbing image.
Perelandra wrote:Kinda what I thought. Our names are not too dissimilar, then.
The book is not Lewis' best effort.erosoplier wrote:Yours is a nice name - it stands on it's own as a nice name even if you don't know what it means. Which I don't. It struck me as being very feminine even before I learned that it was associated with Venus, but is there more of a story behind it? I haven't read the book.
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