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Welcome to The Epic! I am launching this blog as a manifesto for and a guide to living well. The title and motto of the blog are taken from the Epicureans, at least some of whom believed in the notion that not one minute of the future was guaranteed to them and that as a result they had the duty to live life to its fullest every moment.

I believe in discovering fun and pleasurable things wherever I find myself each day and I am told I have a knack for unearthing them. My hope is that by sharing in my pleasures and some of my ways of finding them you will begin to collect all the riches that lie in the moments of your life. They are there. Take them! All our lives should be.....Epic.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Epic Lexicon: Mithridate

Mithridate, mith-ri-deyt, noun;

A confection believed to contain an antidote to every poison.

The emotional poisons anyhow. Kingsley Amis was a firm believer in this notion. Sinatra was too. That's good enough company for me.

Attribution Note: Definition from dictionary.com; Photo taken at China Grill, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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3 comments:

Belle de Ville said...

I love this word and I'm going to use it often!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

November 23, 2010 at 7:38 AM
CashmereLibrarian said...

A truer word has not been said...

November 23, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Lady C said...

Oh, yes! I'm dying to try this stuff!!
Fondly, Lady C.

November 28, 2010 at 9:01 PM

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