[lit-ideas] "Say It With Flowers" (Was: Wittgenstein's Show and Tell
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:42:12 EST
In a message dated 3/29/2004 10:08:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
**Non-verbally... <chuckle>.
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
Ceridwen Harris wrote:
> Does body language speak?
>
> Ceri
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You can also say it with flowers. This was called 'floral dictiveness' by T.
Wharton! And it's the title of a film with Gracie Fields.
Geary will say that 'it' -- in 'Say It With Flowers' -- stands for 'sex', but
I'm not so sure. It can stand for _love_, too.
Cheers,
JL
writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina
reading from Venus
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