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...it sticks between the teeth of the mind...Saturday, January 20, 2007
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It may seem odd to celebrate a prefix. After all, it isn’t even a whole part of speech. It does for a word, visually, what a big cigar does for a small man. But even as prefixes go, “post-” is unusually adaptable. It signifies transcendence, surpassing, moving past, leaving behind, and yet it does all these things while remaining attached to the very thing the prefix is leaving in the dust.
It may seem odd to celebrate a prefix. After all, it isn’t even a whole part of speech. It does for a word, visually, what a big cigar does for a small man. But even as prefixes go, “post-” is unusually adaptable. It signifies transcendence, surpassing, moving past, leaving behind, and yet it does all these things while remaining attached to the very thing the prefix is leaving in the dust.
posted by marco venutto 1:15 PM 
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