Monday, March 25, 2013
"One Hundred Names for Love"
Diane Ackerman wrote One Hundred Names for Love about her husband Paul West, both of them writers, both in love with language and each other.
When Paul fell victim to a stroke that took his abilities both to understand and use language, Diane nursed him back to health by reminding him of the enormous list of pet names he called her by, such as "swan" or "pilot-poet." He remembered them and gradually regained those words, then others, with love and language.
Diane lists the hundred names in the back of the book. She says, "Paul had so many pet names for me I was a one-woman zoo."
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sadly, or perhaps more questionable is the love word for my beautiful husband of 20 years. true love is uttered in the odd word strong, "butter bean". now where did that come from>\? and do butter bean even exist????
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