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akt06 Sep 2000, 23:37originalas archived
An O, Wow moment
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Dan Schmidt asked re Seawrack:
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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 Ansley07 Sep 2000, 00:02originalas archived
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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. <g>
William Ansley *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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