Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. 'Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. The 'art last forever' meaning of the phrase now makes that look like a poor choice as the album is now largely forgotten.Which sort of seducer could you be: *Siren? *Rake? *Cold Coquette? *Star? *Comedian? *Charismatic? or *Saint? This book will show you which. That would lead us to interpret the meaning as 'it takes a long time to acquire and perfect one's expertise (in, say, medicine) and one has but a short time in which to do it'.Īrs Longa, Vita Brevis was chosen by the 1960s progressive rock band The Nice as the title of their second album. This can be rendered into English as 'life is short, the art (craft/skill) long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgement difficult'. 'Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.' If we accept that the Latin term 'ars' is equivalent to the Greek 'techne' and that 'ars' is better translated into English as 'skill' or 'craft', we may opt to interpret the phrase differently. That is questioned by some, who say that it is a misinterpretation based on a misunderstanding of the translation of 'ars' as 'art'. What is usually understood by 'Ars longa, vita brevis' is something along the lines of 'art lasts forever, but artists die and are forgotten'. This is one of those rare phrases in which the meaning is more debated than the origin. What's the meaning of the phrase 'Ars longa, vita brevis'? 'Ars longa, vita brevis' is the translation into Latin of part of a quotation by the Greek 'Father of Medicine' - Hippocrates.

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