Nov. 1, 2010 at 5:21pm with 137 notes
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ada-or-ardor: georgekirrin: beautyandthebutch:   See those spoons? OED: spoony, n., 2. One who spoons or is foolishly amorous. a., 2a. Sentimentally or foolishly amorous.  The word also had homosexual connotations, as in Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. Says old A. E. Housman to young A. E. Housman: “Centuries later in a play now lost, Aeschylus brought in Eros, which I suppose we may translate as extreme spooniness; showers of kisses, and unblemished thighs. Sophocles, too; he wrote The Loves of Achilles: more spooniness than you’d find in a cutlery drawer, I shouldn’t wonder.” (The Invention of Love is my favorite play, full of Latin etymologies and mopey aesthetes.)

ada-or-ardor:

georgekirrin:

beautyandthebutch:

 

See those spoons?

OED: spoony, n., 2. One who spoons or is foolishly amorous. a., 2a. Sentimentally or foolishly amorous. 

The word also had homosexual connotations, as in Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. Says old A. E. Housman to young A. E. Housman: “Centuries later in a play now lost, Aeschylus brought in Eros, which I suppose we may translate as extreme spooniness; showers of kisses, and unblemished thighs. Sophocles, too; he wrote The Loves of Achilles: more spooniness than you’d find in a cutlery drawer, I shouldn’t wonder.”

(The Invention of Love is my favorite play, full of Latin etymologies and mopey aesthetes.)

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