John Aravosis
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"I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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January 17, 2009
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1:01Now PlayingPropinquity had a special meaning at the time Edna used it. It meant there was a powerful force acting on a man and woman in close proximity compelling them to have sex. It also meant the presumption that a man and a woman living together were having sex. Thus a woman's reputation would be tarnished if she lived with a man - as his housekeeper, for instance.
I mention this because the dictionaries I consulted didn't make this meaning of propinquity clear. Also the word has been hijacked by psychologists to endue their beliefs.
Edna's candle burned brightly but it didn't last, as she predicted. "Youth's a stuff will not endure", as my mate Will put it.
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