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[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"a little death" most notably referenced by ~~shakespeare~~ THE FRENCH means orgasm

[–] Neato@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

le petite mort, if you will.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Partir, c'est mourir un peu

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you mean "most notably by the French" 😌

[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

touche mon frere

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I thought that was what intended by the author.

[–] Lame_One@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"And if you decide to skip dying for a single day, you'll regret being alive"

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Jokes on him, I regret it even when I sleep

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

This isn't the little death I asked for.

[–] Vode_An@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If death is like sleeping sign me up (it’s not, but an eternal nap with the occasional dream would be pretty cozy ngl).

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

You just currently in one of your longer occasionally dreams. Don’t worry, we all wake up sometime.

[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a favorite Shakey Graves lyric: "Night is to day as death is to dreaming." I love that line, even though I still don't really know what he means. It also just flows very well in the song, so that helps.

[–] Vode_An@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like he had a rather dark view the night. I don’t understand it, but it sounds like he intended to contrast the positive connotations of life and day (bright, warm, ect) with the opposites. Idk, what do you think he meant?

[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, night and day are two sides of the same eternally flipping coin, an endless cycle, back and forth forever. But dreaming isn't the flip-side of death, life is. So maybe he's saying that "life is just a dream"? Or death is dreaming, but without light? Idk, but it's from a sleep/dream-themed concept album called Can't Wake Up. I highly recommend it, it got no attention anywhere but it's easily one of my favorite albums of the last five years.

[–] Vode_An@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

I’ll check it out, sounds interesting

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, can we say that people have all died now? If sleep is just a temporary death, one we can wake up from, then that means everyone has died.

[–] DarkenLM@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

Finally, I can answer "Yes" on the greatest test of all questionnaires.