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3/6/06

Times on line: Put your sweet lips

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Put your sweet lips

In what must still be the longest single work devoted to the kiss — Opus Polyhistoricum . . . de Osculis — the German polymath Martin von Kempe (1642-83) assembled 1,040 closely packed pages of excerpts from classical, biblical, legal, medical and other learned sources to form a sort of encyclopaedia of kissing. He listed more than 20 types of kiss. "Look at these people! They suck each other! They eat each other's saliva and dirt!" — Tsonga people of southern Africa on the European practice of kissing, 1927

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