"Some modern travellers still pretend to find Acephalous people in America."
Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia; or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences, 1753
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pastcast, v. To ascribe, assign, bestow to historical personages, as a defining property or characteristic, contemporary theories, doctrines, beliefs which they did not or could not have held. 1939 J. Joyce, F. Wake. 314 Paradoxmutose caring, but here in a present booth of Ballaclay, Barthalamou, where their dutchuncler mynhosts and serves them dram well right for a boors' interior (homereek van hohmryk) that salve that selver is to screen its auntey and has ringround as worldwise eve her sins (pip, pip, pip) willpip futurepip feature apip footloose pastcast with spareshins and flash substittles of noirse-made-earsy from a nephew mind the narrator but give the devil his so long as those sohns of a blitzh call the tuone tuone and thonder alout makes the thurd. 2007 S.E. Kaufman, Diss. 171 In Social Darwinism in American Thought (1944), written during the decade in which the [Modern] Synthesis gradually coalesced, Richard Hofstadter pastcasts a heavily synthesized Darwinism into fin de siècle American culture as a means of justifying New Deal social policy through an implicit comparison of the consequences of Roosevelt's interventionist approach to the depredations brought about by the laissez-faire policies of the Gilded Age.
Rapturous. Um, I mean "raptorous".
Posted by: The Necromancer | Tuesday, 04 September 2007 at 05:08 PM
Wow, that's exactly what I needed to see.
Posted by: Andrew Ritchie | Tuesday, 04 September 2007 at 10:02 PM
At first I thought someone was watching you like a hawk. Then I realized that it was a pair eagle eyes making sure you're working. - TL
Posted by: Tim Lacy | Wednesday, 05 September 2007 at 02:25 PM
Um, I think every blog should probably post this at least once a day as a public service. Eep!
Posted by: uncomplicatedly | Wednesday, 05 September 2007 at 02:25 PM
Oh yes, please keep it at the top somehow! It actually helped there, for a minute.
Oh darn, and here I am commenting..
Posted by: Uri | Wednesday, 05 September 2007 at 06:58 PM
I think I'm going to make this my desktop.
Posted by: voncookie | Wednesday, 05 September 2007 at 07:34 PM
voncookie, that's the nicest thing anybody's said to me all day. Only, what the fuck are you doing here saying it? Don't you realize WORK BIRD CAN STILL SEE YOU?
Posted by: SEK | Wednesday, 05 September 2007 at 08:02 PM
I think Work Bird is pissed he didn't make it into "The Custom-House."
Posted by: The Constructivist | Wednesday, 05 September 2007 at 08:59 PM
I took the suggestion above and made WORK BIRD my desktop... I've already finished my second draft of my Fulbright proposal and it's not even 10 a.m. Thanks, Work Bird!
Posted by: anna | Friday, 07 September 2007 at 11:35 AM
Dude, how is it that Work Bird inspires some people to insane heights of productiveness and just inspired me to figure out how to do the text and outline functions in Photoshop?
Sigh.
Posted by: Sisyphus | Friday, 07 September 2007 at 08:18 PM