i just liked this very much from thrones, dominations. harriet to peter: "let's not divide the lusts of the flesh from heart and mind. and lusts are only joys, it's just the anglo-saxon word for joy."

incidentally i think i'm being dense but is there an english verb that is comparable to latin exigere and french exiger? the only thing i came up with is exigent (which, because i kept spelling exigeant, had a lot of trouble looking up in dictionaries. *hand over eyes* but it's such a good word, that looks and sounds like what it means, that it seems a shame that there is no english verb that's a cognate or derivative. i keep finding myself forming sentences with it in mind until i actually hit the verb and grimace at the impossibility. aiyah.