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

[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.)