Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

— Eve on Human sexual activity

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day." in the context of "Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Eve

Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה‎, Classical Hebrew: Ḥawwāh, Modern Israeli Hebrew: Khavah, Arabic: حواء‎, Syriac: ܚܘܐ, Tigrinya: ሕይዋን? or Hiywan) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, in most Abrahamic traditions identified as the first woman. "Eve" in the Hebrew language is Ḥawwāh, meaning: "living one" or "source of life", and is related to ḥāyâ, "to live", derived from the Semitic root ḥyw.