A Mad Tea-Party

Hebdomadal of Anna's Adventures in Wonderland

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Still more about today... and a tip

Today in the museum, I decided to try to do my work wearing gloves. (Thought it might create a feeling of connectedness, maar dat terzijde.) With Titan 9'' Nitrile Non-latex Powder free Exam gloves by CLP Tools for Molecular Biology (Medium), to be precise. I gave up after an hour.

And now for something completely different: I received some signals that the title of yesterday's post does not become entirely clear. Maybe I should have said that it takes more than a dictionary to solve... you might need some wit, or linguistic intuition, or creativity. Or perhaps it helps if I write it this way: "En Tokig Te-Bjudning"?

And here is something I found in the Middle Ages: twelfth-century treatises appear to have ideas about what is proper in love that are rather similar to ours nowadays. These are the “stationes amandi”, the stages of loving, any affair ideally goes through, according to a large number of clerics(!):

1. Visus

2. Alloquium

3. Tactus

4. Oscula

5. Factum