Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of using discretion and good judgment in discussing intimate topics.
In this quote, Ernest Hemingway humorously illustrates the complexities of expressing intimate relationships. He suggests that if one struggles to articulate such topics directly, they should resort to euphemisms, emphasizing the necessity of good taste and personal judgment when communicating about love and intimacy.
In practice
Using this quote in a workshop about effective communication in relationships.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm
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