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1:51 p.m. : 2002-06-30 : Gone Fishin'

I�ll be �gwine �til the 4th. I�m hitting the Land of the Ice Cream Man, Dairy King and Hands stores�The Jersey Shore�with nothing but a bikini in a bindle. I wish it were that simple. Traveling with me is like being on a kibbutz. Bags and bags of laundry, two cats, a donkey tied out behind the car�

I�d just like a moment to state the obvious, because it�s on television: Say Anything is one of the best. But we all know that. I�m delighting in it as I gather my beach-bound things. �You must chill! You must chill! I have hidden your keys.� And who will ever forget the ubiquitous �I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.� Of course there are some cheezy songs and the "score" is tr�s ridicule. But �In Your Eyes.� And �Within Your Reach�? Ahhhhh�. Oh Lloyd Dobbler, do you ever get sick of all the sensitive indie boys in your shadow?

Etc. Enjoy your days.

Word of the Day for Sunday June 30, 2002:

afflatus uh-FLAY-tuhs, noun:

A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.

Whatever happened to passion and vision and the divine afflatus in poetry? --Clive Hicks, "From 'Green Man' (Ronsdale)," [1]Toronto Star, November 21, 1999

Aristophanes must have eclipsed them . . . by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus. --John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets

Afflatus is from Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare, "to blow at or breathe on," from ad-, "at" + flare, "to puff, to blow." Other words with the same root include deflate (de-,

"out of" + flare); inflate (in-, "into" + flare); souffl�, the "puffed up" dish (from French souffler, "to puff," from Latin sufflare, "to blow from below," hence "to blow up, to puff up," from sub-, "below" + flare); and flatulent.

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