Re: Enantodromia

John Cowan writes:
 > Tim May scripsit:
 >
 > > So that's what it means.  Aldiss uses it repeatedly in his
 > > _Helliconia_ trilogy (along with the mysterious "eotemporal", which
 > > I've mentioned here before) but his definition is less helpful -
 > > something like "the process by which things are converted into their
 > > opposites".
 >
 > That sounds about right.
 >
 > As for "eotemporal", context would help, but it sounds to me like a
 > portmanteau word for "in eo tempore", which would mean "in this time"
 > as contrasted with "in illo tempore", which means "in that time, in
 > mythological time, in the dream time".  So something is eotemporal if
 > it is part of ordinary secular time.
 >
Good try, but the etymology is actually from _eos_, dawn.  In the books
it describes the perception of time by a particular non-human
species.  A google search reveals that it has been used infrequently
by other writers.  I made a post a few months ago quoting what Aldiss
said about eotemporal conciousness - it should be in the archives.