Confusing heritage
Nov 21, 2005
Several characters in Ægypt have had cause to refer to what is claimed to be a Greek word, heimarmene, meaning, variously, fate, destiny, prison, &c. But I always read it as an extrasyllabic German adjective: ein heimarmer Mann, a man with little home, or something like that.
And later: En ciel un dieu, en terre une déesse, attributed to nameless Provençal poets, clearly means "in heaven a god, on earth an absence" (or failure).
I'm totally enjoying Crowley's vocabulary. Best word yet: cicisbeo. How civilized.
Comments
on 2005-11-26 0:45:15.0, Scott Eric Kaufman commented:
Next on your list should be Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat. Not quite the read, but an equally impressive vocabulary.