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  • les cils (eyelashes)
  • les yeux (eyes)
  • les lèvres (lips)
  • la langue (tongue - oh my goodness, doesn't it look similar to 'language'??? *faints*)
  • la peau (skin - sounds so 'pearly' aaahhh)
  • la poignet (wrist)
  • les bras (arms...yes)
  • les genoux (knees)
  • le visage (face)
  • la petite morte ('the little death' -idiom/euphemism for orgasm) More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm or to a short period of melancholy or transcendence as a result of the expenditure of the "life force," the feeling which is caused by the release of oxytocin in the brain after the occurrence of orgasm. Literary critic Roland Barthes spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature. He metaphorically used the concept to describe the feeling one should get when experiencing any great literature.
aug 1 2013 ∞
aug 10 2013 +