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Words from Tehanu

By Dibson on 2010 January 23

Casey lent me Ursula K LeGuin’s Tehanu, one of the books from The Earthsea Trilogy-turned-cycle. I’ve always been attracted to science fiction, but rarely fantasy (although they both fall under the clumsy term “speculative fiction”). However, the Earthsea Trilogy engaged me the whole way through. Tehanu was written many years after the original trilogy, and [...]

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New Words from Wordsmith

By Dibson on 2010 January 17

I’m subscribed to the Wordsmith Word-a-day mailing list. I like a bunch of them, but rarely use them. I’m keeping ones I like here as a reference for myself. This past weeks words were all religious. I liked one particular: eremite (AIR-uh-myt) noun A recluse, especially for religious reasons. [From Latin eremita, from Greek eremia [...]

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