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Staggering back on topic: Fidel? Is there context in the story that he had a dictator complex?
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well, smaug you all very much!! (thanks for trying, J..)
it quickly became obvious that I wasn't going to get any satisfaction here, so I went directly to the horse's maw (a bit of a cross-thread just then) and just received this reply from Chris:
Mike,
First, thank you for buying the book [three dollar-bucks via Kindle], thank you for reading the book, and thank you for reading so thoroughly…
If memory serves, which it probably doesn’t, this is an instance of being frankly absurd…
It would be a version of 2 [cf. my OP], with the caveat that this was six or eight years ago and I like to think my intentions are perhaps more tangential; however, I recall discovering the word and grazing on it with some deliberation… mostly, because it is sopping with significance… obscure, but expressively clinical as well…
I happened upon a second spelling – phrenia vs. phenia… ‘phrenia’ - ‘mind’, used for the likes of ‘schizophrenia’, etc. Castro – castrate…
The suffix – phen, a rarity itself, ‘to show’, but hardly used except in the case of uncommon words, and then, applied by neologists like mad… For me, converting a word like this then into an adjective is of course obnoxious, and therefore, truly appealing…
I happened upon apophenia – finding meaning and patterns in randomness; and it as ‘apophenic’ and so, chose this…
This all sounds proper and good, but honestly, probably not an accurate formation of the process (I’m far less systematic and/or scholarly).
Hopefully this is somewhat helpful…
Chris [emPHAsis added]
-joe (what, me annoyed‽) friday
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Seems like you happened upon a kindred soul!
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Seems like you happened upon a kindred soul! Ha definitely! Glad you all enjoyed the large Smaug picture...I think there is definitely something in what Chris said, although I do rather like the CAAASTTTROOFFFENNNNICC myself 
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To tell you the truth, after looking at that thing for a long time, I finally took a magnifying glass. I saw the arched doorways and it dawned on me I had seen this before. It still looks like catastrophenic eggs, but I'm glad it ìs Old Smaug.
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and a little Bilbo in the corner!
formerly known as etaoin...
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and a little Bilbo in the corner! Ooh, I love it when you talk dirty! 
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I must be missing something here, but Bilbo is in the
lower right corner. At least I presume it is Bilbo,
cannot see the hairy feet too well.
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It is indeed...It's the bit where he first goes into the misty mountain to 'burgle' and wears the ring...Smaug doesn't see him and they have an...interesting...conversation
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While I've read LOTR dozens of time, Hobbit only merits
a couple. I was told back decades ago that it was only
an intro to LOTR and not necessary. But intend to reread
it before the movie. I think it deserves that. So I really
don't remember the ....interesting....conversation.
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