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This is a first. I fell asleep reading this book I so liked. O, so it goes.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Casanova Librarian
Reading "The Know-It-All", and found this snippet under Casanova: in his final years, Casanova was a librarian. Sexes up the image of librarians.
Entry on page 32 reads: "The famous 18th-century lothario ended his life as a a librarian. Librarians could use that to sex up their image."
Indeed.
The Know-It-All: one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world, by A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, New York: 2004)
Chocolate.org has this picture of Casanova, and this caption: Chocolate has a reputation as an aphrodisiac. The physiological basis of this claim is still controversial; but the insatiable womaniser Giacomo Casanova made a habit of consuming chocolate before lovemaking - and few of the women he seduced complained afterwards. Further, the website, in describing the substance, states that "reportedly 50% of women claim to prefer chocolate to sex. The mature images hyperlinked to this word show some fascinating evidence
Entry on page 32 reads: "The famous 18th-century lothario ended his life as a a librarian. Librarians could use that to sex up their image."
Indeed.
The Know-It-All: one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world, by A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, New York: 2004)
Chocolate.org has this picture of Casanova, and this caption: Chocolate has a reputation as an aphrodisiac. The physiological basis of this claim is still controversial; but the insatiable womaniser Giacomo Casanova made a habit of consuming chocolate before lovemaking - and few of the women he seduced complained afterwards. Further, the website, in describing the substance, states that "reportedly 50% of women claim to prefer chocolate to sex. The mature images hyperlinked to this word show some fascinating evidence
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