Category: Wild Card
Kinisi 284
Bitchin’
Flute
Fries
A thought while assembling Tendrils
Once upon a time, meaning not all that long ago, trying to track down ten more or less related facts impinging upon a particular topic would have required a very tedious amount of time in a library. Or may some more remote back office or agency, wherever.
Instead, thanks to the Internet, the list can be cobbled together within a few hours on a laptop.
It can seem like cheating or at least borderline plagiarism.
No guaranties on accuracy, either.
Kinisi 283
poetential
potential
On a downtown Belfast street
A shaved-head man
in a very dark navy-blue suit
resembled an undertaker
as he carried a deposit bag
to the bank.
Turned out to be an attorney.
Kinisi 282
Cruel
Duel
Kinisi 281
strange sounds
sounds strange
Kinisi 280
Cardboard
Catbird
So how are you, really?
If AGE was a sign of WISDOM, a vast age might have been a sign of great wisdom, so that Biblical ages stand not as a measure of time but as a scaling of experience or insight.
Methuselah, 969 years; Noah, 950.
Also, the the closer to historic times, the more normal – i.e., smaller the number, though still bigger than today’s.
Good thing negative numbers don’t apply here.
Kinisi 279
w i i n d
schooner or later