Word of the Month - And Possibly The Year

[aunt_zelda]

Eidolon - a) an apparition/phantom or b) an ideal.
Pronounced 'ahy-doh-luh-n'

Spurred by a conversation with [Unknown site tag]yaoi_anti_drug here: http://community.livejournal.com/mylar_fic/243370.html

(All credit to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eidolon of course!)

Anyone who can find this word in a book/movie/poem/college course/archeological dig shall earn ... something ... I'll shower confetti and hand out ginger cookies!

And what a DAY! Tech-day is never fun, but still ... longest frakin' Tech EVER! *sweaty and icky, plans on a shower soon*

Comments

[forsquilis.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite poems from Mr. E.A. Poe:

By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule —
From a wild weird clime, that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE — out of TIME.


Mmmm....ginger cookies...

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Wow. I didn't think such a word had been used since ... possibly Shakespeare ('caitiff' - another word I love - used in 'Romeo and Juliet' ...)

Mmmm....ginger cookies...
Heh, I toss them cheerily with confetti!

(Still, have I ever told anyone here that after an American Short Story class E. A. Poe severely freaks me out? That man scares me ... *shiver shiver* I mean, he's amazing and all, but all the stuff about being walled-up alive and buried alive and creepy psycho murderings and *huddles under the bed with wooden stakes, Sai, and katana* I SHOULD kinda like that stuff ... I mean, vampires and werewolves and such don't scare me, but perhaps it's all the psychological stuff that freaks me out ... *stations Red Samurai guys around the bed*)
But I'm happy for an example ... thank you!