Wednesday 22 July 2009

cogito ergo sum.......

ergo...

...I'm in trouble.




I can't think of the word I want that means you can't think of the word you want.


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*rummages through the interwebs in frustration*


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lethologica!





hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Oooh, ooooh, oooh. And in delving into it more than my initial efforts to recall had initially allowed - meaning of course, had I remembered it and not needed to delve I would have known less than I do now - I then discovered most wonderously (to me at least) that 'letho' (meaning 'forgetfulness') originally comes from: "the Lethe (or River of Oblivion) was one of the rivers that flowed through the realm of Hades, from which the shades of the dead were forced to drink in order to forget their past lives on earth". And this is in one of my favourite poems by Keats (Ode on Melancholy) which is how I learnt about the river of forgetfulness in the first place. And furthermore - being reminded of this reasonably long poem I recall (see, look, remembering!) - that I am not too bad with my memory really as I can remember the entire poem.* "No, no, go not to Lethe..!!!"





* And in finding this link proceeded to learn that the poem used to have an added stanza at the start! Look! Lethologica can lead to learning!!!!!

*pats self proudly on pedagogic back and departs*