[Fictionary] ROUNCEY results!

[Hutch]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 12:02 PM Pierre Abbat <phma at bezitopo.org> wrote:

> On Friday, November 13, 2020 3:20:31 PM EST Ziv Stern wrote:
> > Ah, Pierre is too good for me again, and knows the word -- I think we
> must
> > be reading some of the same books!
> > Here's a picture of a tesem:
> > [image: Egyptian_-_Man_with_Calf_and_Dog_-_Walters_22422_-_Detail_B.jpg]
>
> Actually I think I found it in Wikipedia.
>
> > I do adore David's very quick definition:
> > tesem - n. - a carnivore that lurks in tesseracts
> > If you were to see one alive, it does seem likely it would have come out
> of
> > a tesseract...
>
> I'd like to see an ancient Egyptian tesseract!
>
> Pierre
> --
> I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.
>

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Sorry, for the repeat Pierre, I inadvertently addressed it to you only the
first time.

>
> I learned of the word "tesseract" from the science fiction novel: A
> Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine l'Engle. In the novel, "to tesseract" meant
> to travel, presumably through higher dimensions, across vast distances
> without occupying the intervening spaces. Think of a Star Trek transporter
> without any technology and with a practically infinite range.
>
> My older cat is a neighborhood stray, who comes and goes as he pleases.
> When he was a little kitten, he would appear, seemingly out of nowhere, by
> my side to wail that he was hungry. (Pretty sure that he was not as he
> appeared to have been fed by at least four of my neighbors on a regular
> basis.) Because of his habit of appearing out of nowhere, I call him
> "Tessercat" from that fictional meaning of the word. :-)
>
> BB,
> Hutch
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