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To: spiral3 who wrote (19642)	2/22/2002 8:07:37 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

spiralcubed, Is that a lutz or a triple axel? Oh, never mind.... Thanks for that Van Morrison tone poem. I had no idea where Carroll picked that up. Now I know, another marvelous example of the serendipity of collective intelligence (right wingers take note, this doesn't mean you can label me a member of the Comintern now, OK?) which made me think about something I read a couple days ago here: harpers.org It turns out that: (The) rank of "serendipity" among words most often queried on Cambridge Dictionaries Online last October : 1 Year in which the word was coined from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip" : 1754 well, you know how my mind works (or wanders, according to my friends on the Right) so I did some research on Serendip. Which led me inexorably to discover serendip.brynmawr.edu that Serendip is now called Sri Lanka, and was once Ceylon. So it must be time for tea. Ta Ta