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re : lethologica
Wouldn't "letholexica" (or something like it) make more sense?
How does "lethologica" break down etymologically?
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Gr. logos word, speech, discourse, reason
Gr. lethe forgetfulness
edit: perhaps you'd prefer loganamnosis.
Last edited by tsuwm; 11/05/05 07:04 AM.
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Or logamnesia -- oh wait, I'll bet that means forgetting your password.
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Quote:
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What was a flash house, please?
A brothel, for the wearers of cheap, flashy jewelry who frequent them.
For all I know brothels may have been called flash houses, but that meaning doesn't seem to fit the context:
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I think it's unlikely that brothels would employ junior clerks. And Poe distinguishes between 'junior clerks of flash houses' and 'upper clerks of staunch firms'. I think 'house' here just means business or company -- as it often did in the 19th century -- and a flash house would mean a probably ephemeral company where the emphasis was on style rather than substance (perhaps we would say flashy these days rather than flash).
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