{"id":1948,"date":"2022-07-19T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/book-lust\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:35:16","slug":"book-lust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/book-lust\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Lust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The old man&#39;s libido may be on the wane, but this man&#39;s book lust&#0160; remains as stiff-standing as ever.&#0160; I&#39;m reading along in Anthony Kenny&#39;s <em>Aquinas on Being<\/em> and I find a footnote in which he praises a certain Hermann Weidemann&#39;s article contained in a certain anthology. I think, &quot;Oh boy, when I am in Tempe on Friday I&#39;ll snag that volume from the Arizona State University&#0160; library.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In the bookman&#39;s eros we descry the superiority of the spirit over the flesh. The pleasures of the mind can extend for decades, from earliest youth to advanced old age.&#0160; But not even the artifices of a Hugh Hefner can help those enmired&#0160; in the dotage and decrepitude of the flesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">At the end, even stoked to the max with Viagra to the point of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2017\/09\/playboy-don-hugh-hefner-suffered-hearing-loss\/\">hearing loss<\/a>, Hef couldn&#39;t get it up sufficiently to penetrate the young lovelies who cavorted around him. He was reduced to manual mode while the bunnies romped with each other exchanging intimacies I charitably imagine to be more innocently sororal than libidinously lesbian.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old man&#39;s libido may be on the wane, but this man&#39;s book lust&#0160; remains as stiff-standing as ever.&#0160; I&#39;m reading along in Anthony Kenny&#39;s Aquinas on Being and I find a footnote in which he praises a certain Hermann Weidemann&#39;s article contained in a certain anthology. I think, &quot;Oh boy, when I am in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/07\/19\/book-lust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Lust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,289,290,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia","category-books","category-life-of-the-mind","category-sex-love-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}