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4/10/2002

Still here, just been busy. And nothing really worth logging an entry about, yanno. Sometimes the mundane aspects of life must be dealt with, no matter how boring or tedious.

Moved the rest of this to individual entry. Nothing of great importance, though.


more thoughts than first seen...

I subscribed to dictionary.com's word of the day... heh

Today's word:

pellucid  puh-LOO-sid\, adjective:

1. Transparent; clear; not opaque.
2. Easily understandable.

The prevailing atmosphere as one cruises Kukulcan Boulevard, the busy strip where most of Cancun's 122 hotels are clustered, remains that of an Orlando or a Las Vegas dropped intact next to pellucid Caribbean waters.
--Larry Rohter, "What's Doing in Cancun."
[1]New York Times, March 8, 1998

In her scrupulous and pellucid prose, she appears to distance herself from the optimistic Californian light.
--Cynthia Ozick, "What Writer's Writers Write."
[2]New York Times Magazine, January 2, 2000



Pellucid comes from Latin pellucidus, "shining, transparent," from pellucere, "to shine through," from per-, "through" + lucere, "to shine."

References

  1. http://www.nyt.com/

  2. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/