BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Word of the Day | Dictionary.com

Word of the Day Dictionary.com:

"palingenesis

\ pal-in-JEN-uh-sis \ , noun;

1. Rebirth; regeneration. 2. In biology, embryonic development that reproduces the ancestral features of the species. 3. Baptism in the Christian faith. 4. The doctrine of transmigration of souls. Read the full entry See synonyms Comment on today's word Suggest tomorrow's word

Quotes:

His acquaintance with the family dated from their social palingenesis , when, after obscure prosperity in a southern suburb, they fluttered to the northern heights, and were observed of the paragraphists.
-- George Gissing, The Whirlpool

A perfect palingenesis was wrought by the restorer of the Persian empire, which pretty nearly re- occupied (and gloried in re-occupying) the very area that had once composed the empire of Cyrus.
-- Thomas de Quincey, The Caesars

Origin:

Palingenesis is the combination of two Greek roots: palin , 'again,' and genesis , 'source.'"
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