Re: Enantodromia
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 16, 2002, 19:27 |
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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.
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