this blog's title

the word first struck me while i was reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera. so much so that it stayed with me for a while. and then i remembered reading it on the homepage of my univ's web forum I then asked my special person to check the definition for me since he has built in dictionary in his cellphone. and voila, i now know the meaning. and while i was searching my memory (in vain) for a blog title, i remembered this and that is how I christened my bloggy :D