Friday, April 11, 2008

Haiku time once more

Bittersweet phantom,
The memory of a kiss.
Wistful self-torture!


Yes, wallowing in romantic nostalgia again this week.

One might suppose that 'bittersweet' is a relatively novel invention, but in fact it's pretty old. Nor is it a uniquely English concept: the same idea occurs in Classical Greek some 2,500 year ago - glukupikros.

I haven't flaunted my Classical education for a while, so, you know.......

1 comment:

Tulsa said...

ah, thanks, we were *almost* starting to forget :)