Apocalypses

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 29 Mar 2014, 06:21 · from 2014-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:21:10 -0500
Subject: (urth) Apocalypses
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On 3/28/2014 7:56 PM, Antonin Scriabin wrote:
> I'm having trouble translating, finding anything on, or making sense of
> the term "kalo pisicho" in Lafferty's Apocalypses. Can anyone point me
> in the right direction? All I know for sure is it is the being the
> Detective, Captain Nemo, is more afraid of than anything in the world.


Google Ngrams' earliest hit for kalo is Narrative of a journey in the 
Morea, 1823, by Sir William Gell. P.376, "The people seemed rather 
pleased that I approved of their liquor, and all in chorus cried out 
Kalo kalo krassi, good wine."

Pisicho is also a Micronesian atoll, perhaps used as a trap for a 
submariner?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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