What rot!
Jul.21, 2006, filed under Miscellany
I learned last night that Sappho was the first poet to describe the moon as ‘silvery’, something that these days we apparently take for granted.
But it’s not cheesing silver, is it?! It’s sort of an off white!
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
