An O, Wow moment The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 06 Sep 2000 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1017 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== akt — 06 Sep 2000, 23:37 Dan Schmidt asked re Seawrack: > Is this a common word? It appears to be a synonym for seaweed, but I > don't remember encountering it before. I ask because I'm currently > reading through ULYSSES and found it at the beginning of chapter 3: > > Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, > thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, > seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. So I looked in the OED and here is the earliest citation pasted in, verbatim: 1551 Turner Herbal i. K iv, Alga..is commonly called in englyshe see wrak. O, Wow, -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William Ansley — 07 Sep 2000, 00:02 follows, by subject match akt > At 11:37 PM -0400 9/6/00, akt at attglobal.net wrote: > > Dan Schmidt asked re Seawrack: > > Is this a common word? It appears to be a synonym for seaweed, but I > > don't remember encountering it before. I ask because I'm currently > > reading through ULYSSES and found it at the beginning of chapter 3: > > > > Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, > > thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, > > seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. > So I looked in the OED and here is the earliest citation pasted in, > verbatim: > > 1551 Turner Herbal i. K iv, Alga..is commonly called in englyshe see > wrak. > > O, Wow, > -alga Wow, indeed! If you come across a hus, and it offers to shake your hand, *don't do it*. -- William Ansley *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------