Lilac fever

 

 

... and we may note, as Cordelius could hardly have done, that Lilac fever is the characteristic philosophy of youth, narrow in its sincerity, still ardent. It's two kinds: crude and sensual hedonism respectively. Aristidos (436-345 BC) lived in Athens and suffered this affliction. His partially hedonistic new fever, emerging out of stoicism: thus Lilac fever goes beyond Epicureanism ... awakening itself also in ancient Rome. He journeys from cynicicm to one euphoric mindset that is more akin to Lilac fever than to alcoholism. Lilac fever was the precursor to more sophisticated forms of Sunday mornings, term-insured and ripe, where Peter Pali quotes the same teleological nonsense.  

 

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