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To: Gauguin who wrote (40585)	10/28/1999 11:11:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

On the drive home I pondered the concept of euphony in a word, and I came to a conclusion. My favorite words (in terms of how they sound) are invariably polysyllabic, and they are Anglicized Greek. I look for a word with a sort of internal rhythm and melody - like the pleasingly asymmetric weathered rock in a Japanese sand garden. I love to build sentences that have short ordinary words raked around these centerpieces, just as the sand is "naturally" raked to swirl around the stone. Such text strikes the ear most melodiously when read aloud slowly. (Try that last sentence.) Asthenosphere. Archipelago. Symbiosis. Intercalation. There's enough "there" in those words to be a complete, microscopic haiku of phonemes.