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Postby erosoplier » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:44 pm

The wiki page on "Eros" is everchanging.

Here is an exposition which covers some of the not purely carnal and erotic aspects of "eros":

Eros and the Mystery of the Inner Process
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Postby compared2what? » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:56 am

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Eros Unbound

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I bought three of these from my drug-addict street booksellers early in the summer. They didn't have the one with the MM cover. They're very pretty.I mean the books. Although some of my bookselling friends are cute, too.
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Postby erosoplier » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:03 am

I've been meaning to edit the OP here for a while - thanks for prodding me into action, c2w?.

I really should find myself a new moniker, but I can't be bothered, as yet. I began moving away from the original idea of it as soon as I started using it, but it does have the advantage of being a constant reminder for me to try to be kind, and you could do worse in choosing a name for yourself, in that respect.

This Ginsberg chap seems to have been treated quite unfairly. It's easy to forget how much standards have changed in the short space of time since the 60s, and to forget the extent of the prudery of the times. But today the brutes and misanthropes are all about, taking advantage of the freedoms we now have, which we didn't have back then.

As I say, I've moved away...
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Postby Perelandra » Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:02 am

I enjoyed the article. Although I still don't understand your name and have wondered about it.
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Postby erosoplier » Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:08 am

Perelandra wrote:I enjoyed the article.


Thanks for prompting me to re-read it. I liked it too! (even though it does fly by the seat of its pants a little)


Although I still don't understand your name and have wondered about it.



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.
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:27 am

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.
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Postby Perelandra » Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:13 pm

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.
Kinda what I thought. Our names are not too dissimilar, then.

I always thought it should be "erosupplier" or as in your multiplier example, "erosiplier". The o in the middle threw me off.

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Postby erosoplier » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:48 pm

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.


sorry about that, Joe. I know exactly what you mean - the thought of your wedding tackle passed briefly through my mind upon reading your post.

There's always a down-side to using schmaltzy love-is-all-there-is type language, I guess.
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Postby erosoplier » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:53 pm

Perelandra wrote:Kinda what I thought. Our names are not too dissimilar, then.


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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Postby Perelandra » Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:07 am

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.
The book is not Lewis' best effort.

Thanks for the compliment. I did initially choose the name based mainly on aesthetics. I have since found that it is suitable on a number of levels.
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Postby Perelandra » Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:32 am

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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:53 am

So long as it (my tackle) passes through your mind, and not the second part of your name I can live with it.
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