pathic

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:02 PM -0500 2/11/11, Ronald Butters wrote:
>I agree with "gothic." That is the most likely,
>given the ways he makes his other letters.  In
>addition, in terms of content and context,
>"gothic" also makes the most sense. it is a
>silly, empty-headed, pretentious, puerile piece
>of crap. I agree with the suggestion that he was
>drunk. I doubt that he knew what "pathic" meant
>(despite his rumored interest in being the top
>half of homosexual anal couplings).

Well, he did have all that extra butter to use up.   ;-)


LH

>
>On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:39 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:
>
>>  It's Gothic
>>
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>>  Subject: pathic
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>>
>>  What did Marlon Brando mean by pathic (if that's what he wrote) in
>>  this letter? Or is it fathic?
>>
>>
>>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/you-have-something-graceful-and-tender.html?showComment=1297445186855#c7106019559001693760
>>
>>  The OED defines pathic as follows:
>>
>>  B. adj.
>>
>>  1. Relating to or designating the passive partner in homosexual anal
>>  intercourse; homosexual.
>>
>>  2. Relating to suffering or disease; morbid. rare.
>>
>>  ⤠3. Undergoing something, passive. Obs. rareâ¤"0.
>>
>>  4. Involving feeling, perception, or intuition, rather than cognition
>>  or deliberation.
>>
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