Wednesday Word: nemesis

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wednesday's word is...

...nemesis.


1. the Greek goddess of retributive justice
2. one that inflicts retribution or vengeance
3. a formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent
4. an act or effect of retribution
5. bane

from A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

Miss Marple, standing there in the moonlight, her head encased in a fluffy scarf of pale pink wool, looking as unlike a figure of Nemesis as it was possible to imagine.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I always think of Miss Marple when I hear 'Nemesis' :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, so do I.

[barbaratp]

Eu gosto desta palavra porque sempre me faz pensar em filmes onde há dois caras de cabelos brancos já cansados, mas ainda brigando entre si porque dizem ser o nêmesis um do outro mas eu sei que tudo não passa de uma grande tensão sexual mal resolvida *g*

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

😁

[kitarella_imagines]

ah, Hubris and Nemesis. The eternal couple.

I love having a nemesis of a character in a story, it is very intriguing.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, indeed!

[full_metal_ox]

This is my own reflexive reaction to the word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU

(That song was a Goth club dance-floor standard in the 80’s; here’s an analysis: https://web.archive.org/web/20160220121542/http://jwm.livejournal.com:80/105861.html)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Wow! I have to confess it is new to me. But I also have to give man props for properly rhyming parthenogenesis in the chorus. I am trying to post more music in the month of March so I will queue this one up. The commentary/explanation made me laugh many times. I couldn't ever be a Goth but rock on.

[full_metal_ox]

I always associated the chorus “Everybody happy ‘till the dead come home” with the monster family from Ray Bradbury’s “Homecoming” and their big Halloween family reunion bash. (It was a cherished fantasy of mine that Timothy, a human child somehow adopted into a family of vampires, werewolves, mummies, witches, warlocks, a weremouse, and a body-hijacking telepath, represented a horrible mixup at the adoption agency: he was the baby my family was supposed to have gotten.)