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03 III 2002 - 14:55 - verba11 |
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There's a little bit of background you'll be needing before you go through my Alchera monthly assignment. This project period, there were two choices (spread over two months); since school seems to be going mad, I think I'll be doing only one. Here's the topic: PROJECT NO. 04 Project Begins: Saturday, February 02, 2002 Project Details: (1) Pick up a collegiate or an otherwise non-specific dictionary (i.e., no medical dictionaries), open to a random page with your eyes closed, and pin down your index finger somewhere on one of the pages. Wherever your finger lands is your subject. DO NOT try again if you don't like your subject. If you land on the word "the," than that is your subject, and I expect a very interesting piece from you ;-) (Want to skip the explanation? Go ahead.) So, yes. With those as instructions, I went to find a dictionary. I was itching, however, to justify spending 580$NT on the Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases. (Why do I go to Taiwan to buy these things? Good question.) After getting permission from the all-powerful projectmaster, I flipped through, and the entry I came up with follows: telamon noun plural telamones : early 17th century, Latin (telamones (plural) from Greek telamones plural of Τελαμων Telamon, a mythical hero). Architecture A male figure used as a pillar to support an entablature or other structure. Rodin made a sculpture titled "The Caryatid Fallen Under Her Stone." If you do a Google search for both Rodin and Caryatid, it's relatively easy to find a picture of the sculpture. The sculpture got me to thinking (never a good sign), and the result is below. (Actually, you know what's amusing to me is that I never would have come across the sculpture had it not been mentioned in Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.) rodin spoke and at the caryatid silent in the shadows bitter for him, strong no one to give him dignity thick calves and broad back undoubleup and watch out caryatid That's it for now, then. No weekly challenge entry for me this week, won't be doing the other topic, and since poetica-collab is back up, it means I've two other assignments due soon. I hope the rest of your weekend is a good one. By the way: "onus" is not the English word; it's the Latin one which can mean "burden."
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