Comments on: When the fever hits http://www.julieleung.com/archives/1656 pictures and stories from the water's edge Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:08:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Bob V http://www.julieleung.com/archives/1656/comment-page-1#comment-1556 Bob V Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:39:59 +0000 http://www.julieleung.com/wordpress/?p=1656#comment-1556 Hope you feel better soon. As someone who used to suffer from Football Fever, I think I can comment on "why the word 'fever' is used in a positive sense, to express 'an intense...enthusiasm; craze.' The idea is that the intensity of the craze causes delirium. As a kid I used to have endless dreams of running for touchdowns and breaking tackles. It can practically qualify as a disability (as the girls I knew would certify.) Even in the positive sense, "fever" carries with it the warning that passion can look a whole lot like a virus-induced insanity. Hope you feel better soon.

As someone who used to suffer from Football Fever, I think I can comment on “why the word ‘fever’ is used in a positive sense, to express ‘an intense…enthusiasm; craze.’ The idea is that the intensity of the craze causes delirium. As a kid I used to have endless dreams of running for touchdowns and breaking tackles. It can practically qualify as a disability (as the girls I knew would certify.)

Even in the positive sense, “fever” carries with it the warning that passion can look a whole lot like a virus-induced insanity.

]]> By: C.K. Sample, III http://www.julieleung.com/archives/1656/comment-page-1#comment-1555 C.K. Sample, III Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:01:23 +0000 http://www.julieleung.com/wordpress/?p=1656#comment-1555 Sorry, you've been sick. Kris and I can sympathize. We both have been going through it. I'm just starting to feel normal again today, a week after I was first hit by this bug. Some odd head-cold. I had a fever too, but it was in the reverse. I felt very hot, but I was actually running cold, at about 95-96 degrees F. In any case, I hope everybody else in your household successfully dodges the cold (and it sounds like you've been rather diligent in avoiding contagion). Anytime Kris or I get sick, we always just say, "Oh, well, I'll have it too within a week." Curse of the one bedroom apartment. ;-) Sorry, you’ve been sick. Kris and I can sympathize. We both have been going through it. I’m just starting to feel normal again today, a week after I was first hit by this bug. Some odd head-cold. I had a fever too, but it was in the reverse. I felt very hot, but I was actually running cold, at about 95-96 degrees F.

In any case, I hope everybody else in your household successfully dodges the cold (and it sounds like you’ve been rather diligent in avoiding contagion). Anytime Kris or I get sick, we always just say, “Oh, well, I’ll have it too within a week.” Curse of the one bedroom apartment. ;-)

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