tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post8722029641098297878..comments2024-03-29T07:31:49.016+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: this is kind of niftyKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-35848435635687627282012-05-23T12:03:42.583+09:002012-05-23T12:03:42.583+09:00This was easy: A and E were the only reasonable an...This was easy: A and E were the only reasonable answers even if you didn't know what the hell a philippic is.<br /><br />Recommended listening: Simon and Garfunkel, "A Simple Desultory Philippic."Elissonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06299361897381169534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-49324030591701904672012-05-23T03:58:43.024+09:002012-05-23T03:58:43.024+09:00I choose B and C. Early work should be weaker sinc...I choose B and C. Early work <em>should</em> be weaker since an artist ought to improve, and dissolution is an <em>essential</em> pattern in a well-lived aesthetic life. The exhibit therefore reduces this unnamed artist to the middle period of his work, when his artistic achievements were merely middling! Obviously, this 'retrospective' was a travesty of the artist's life and work! Clearly a tirade and a philippic.<br /><br />Jeffery Hodges<br /><br />* * *Horace Jeffery Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684513618463766017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-32975845240445068282012-05-22T15:35:23.910+09:002012-05-22T15:35:23.910+09:00Your faith has healed you!
I took the etymologica...Your faith has healed you!<br /><br />I took the etymological route. I normally think of a eulogy as something done for the dead; the sentence's reference to "ultimate dissolution" indicates the person in question is dead. The Greek "eu-" means "good" and "logos" means "words," and during eulogies we tend not to bring up unpleasant facts about the deceased. "Paean" and "eulogy" seemed close enough in meaning to warrant ignoring "philippic."Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-78217532787205972892012-05-22T09:58:33.481+09:002012-05-22T09:58:33.481+09:00Ooh, yeah, "philippic" is a new word for...Ooh, yeah, "philippic" is a new word for me, too. Sounds like a good entry for a "dictionary" game I play online with some friends.<br /><br />I'mma gonna go with A and E. I haven't looked at the link yet to see if this is correct, but it seems fairly obvious to me. Neither "panacea" (a cure-all) or "crescendo" (a building of intensity or volume) have anything to do with the sentence, leaving A, B, C, and E. "Tirade" doesn't fit because the sentence makes it clear that the word should be positive (negative elements have been pruned from the exhibit). As I mentioned above, I don't know what B means, which leaves me with "paean" and "eulogy"--and these two words do indeed fit the criteria (although I personally like "paean" better for this). So, unless one of the answers is "philippic," the answers are obvious.<br /><br />As a token of my faith in my answers, I'm going to go ahead and post this before I click on the link.Charleshttp://www.liminality.orgnoreply@blogger.com