Tuirgin: how short a time the fire of love endures in woman
if frequent sight and touch do not rekindle it.
Purgatorio VIII.77-78, trans. Hollander

shishno2: quite.

Tuirgin: Whoever said, "Absence makes the heart grow stronger," was a blubbering idiot. Or else a woman writing to a man away at war, trying to convince him she was not writing from the bed of his crippled best friend with hands that lit her on fire.

shishno2: mark twain?

Tuirgin: He said that?

shishno2: no, i thought you were quoting

Tuirgin: Oh. No. That's just me. I'll take that as a compliment. :D

shishno2: heh

Tuirgin: You've made me proud... I'm going to post the last little bit. :P

shishno2: what hath I wreaked?!