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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Hijack time again #91232 01/07/2003 8:38 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Tsuwm's wwftd is "empyrean", too beautiful a word to have been used in the quote he gives: "Then in 1962 [Karpinsky] joined the empyrean of the adult Communist world. He was promoted to Pravda's editorial board heading the department of Marxism- Leninism. He had made it." - David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire A much more suitable word would have been "tartarean" = "infernal" http:///home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hijack time again #91233 01/07/2003 9:21 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass in the context of Karpinsky's goals (at that time), it perfectly captures his state of mind; and empyrean has a noun sense, whereas Tartarean is only an adj. but I get your meaning. here's a link that works: http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Worthy words #91234 01/08/2003 2:53 PM Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 77 magimaria journeyman magimaria journeyman Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 77 Oh, tsuwm, I completely agree with Dr. Bill in that "empyrean" is a beautiful word. I have no idea which of you is correct as to the subtleties of its usage, but I think that I have now found the perfect word that was missing from a favorite poem I wrote last spring that just didn't seem right in a particular line or two. And that was my day 1 of wwftd! Thanks for that, m Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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