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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: What Gay Sex (was Re: How Many Homosexuals?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.031801.20668@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 03:18:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.000530.29451@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu
- (Nelson Minar) writes:
-
- >damn, and here I'd parsed "autochthonous" as
- >
- > auto-chthonous
-
- >which any student of obscure words will recognize as being a bizarre
- >way to say "self-destructive".
-
- I think "chthonic" (also "chthonian") means: of or
- pertaining to the gods or spirits of the underworld (from
- khthon, earth).
-
- I hadn't though of chthonic as referring to destructiveness,
- but I guess it could.
-
- Strange how a word (and really, it didn't seem to me such a
- high-falutin' word as all that) itself gets to be a subject.
-
- I'm content to leave being Mozart to Tom Flesher, since the
- part would now be a touch too chthonic for me. Even
- Beethoven is not someone I'd want to be, for I'd be writing
- my last quartet right about now. I could stand being Bach,
- I guess, for I'd have eight more years and the Art of Fugue
- still ahead of me.
-
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- <> certainty is oblivion. -- Mark Twain
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