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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-03 09:55 AM
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A word I've never heard - 'prelapsarian'
From today's Guardian. Anyone ever used this, or even heard of it?
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Frodo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-03 09:57 AM
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1. Sure. It's "before the 'fall'"
As in the "fall of Adam and Eve".


And no, I don't use it.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-03 09:59 AM
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3. Ahh. The Bible! That's why I'm not familiar with it.
Cheers, Frodo.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-03 09:58 AM
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2. It means something similar to...
...fin de siecle, I think.
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-25-03 09:59 AM
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4. This may be an answer
http://www.macalester.edu/~avandermeer/poetry_prelapsarian.html
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