Saski’s Comments (group member since Nov 10, 2013)

Saski’s comments from the Foucault's Pendulum group.

My list for chapter one and the link Traveller posted match pretty well. I am just left with archeopterix-beaks, archons, and Nuremberg Maidens.

I am confused by the definition for pentaculum, which seems to be a six-pointed star, or Star of David. But... isn't 'penta-' 5?

Looking around I found this comment in another website http://bluehighwind.blogspot.se/2011/... asking the same question:
It's a play on [words], and please forgive me if I don't nail the spelling on this off the top of my head, but it's from the Greek, "metacyclosyuklotron," which I learned from browsing through the OED (and what I was Googling when I found this discussion), which pertains to some theological notion of the secret, 100th name of God, the context for which wasn't included in the dictionary entry but, given the apophatic naming conventions of Islam's "99 names of God," is most likely from some Greek commentary on Muslim theology, though I recall something similar in one of Louis Jorge Borges stories. Oddly, this means that Eco's funny dvandva play on word's neologism does crop up on Google, but the term which inspired it doesn't. And I don't have a subscription to the OED Online, so I can't search there, but I remember it being in the printed version when there were 22 main volumes with 2 addenda.

Maybe?

I made it to 50,020 words, considered a win in NaNo land. Novel itself still has a loooong way to go.

Thanks for asking, Traveller! :)

Traveller wrote: "Oh! I still wanted to ask if anyone knows what "Metacyclosynchrotron " means, and while trying to find an answer on the internet, lookee what I found!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sha......"

Exactly what I would have been looking for, if I had any idea it was there to find. Thank you, Traveller!

I am not sure if this is directly connected to this discussion of Sophia but I thought it was interesting that at the end of chapter one, UE first combines Wisdom with Tradition as the 'ultimate symbol' and later (the last line of the chapter, actually), juxtaposes Wisdom with Science