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I spotted an odd word in a quote from the logician/philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. When asked about the meaning of life, he replied:
"Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time."
Now, I know what "fulgid" means (such are the benefits of reading Pope), but I am unclear as to the precise meaning of "agid". I even tried poking about in Quine's last book, Quiddities, for illumination, but alas, I found there none. Might any of the good folks at wwftd have any suggestions to help guide my steps through "the murky wastes of time"?
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Google churns up a few hits for this quote, but has no elucidation. I can find nothing on 'agid' via the usual suspects. I'm nearing that point of futility: it must be a printer's error, propagated by the 'net -- although an error for what, I can't imagine. algid? aged??
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