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Here's a dandy new trope from O.Henry. I'm amazed that
I could remember the name of the device:
"Gabriel had played his trump; and those of us who could not follow suit were arraigned for examination. "
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It's probably in my top-ten list (which changes every day, because I, like Dr Bill, have my senior moments).
Mine changes daily, too, but because I can't stand to play favorites and leave some deserving word out of the list.
Heliotrope -- isn't that just beautiful?
And how do you feel about metempsychosis?
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I am happily reconciled to the fact that there is no
evidence for existence of souls. I have no desire to
find myself condemned to spend millions of years in any
form of protracted existence. I'm not far from the exit.
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O.Henry does it again! Once more, I think this is a form of
trope: "pace"( = Latin for peace) used to remind us of "peace" which would be expected in the original cliché.
"the belief that in occupying the highest seat in a Rubberneck auto they were travelling the pace that passes all understanding.
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Me, too. I said it was a nice word. As Santayana supposedly said of religion: it's beautiful, just don't ask it to be true. In Spanish, natch.
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jheem, pardon my dull wit this morning, but what's the connection between heliotropes (of any kind, any definition) and metempsychosis?
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> the connection
the sound of both words turns him on ;)
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Thanks, mav', for the clarification.
Now I get to chew on why metempsychosis as a sound would turn anyone on...
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Sorry for the vagary. As Maverick suggest, I just like the sound of metempsychosis. Never though much of the meaning of the word which I know mainly from the discussion of it in Ulysses. I'll try to be less free association from now on.
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> less free association
Doncha dare!
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