The Everlasting Gobstopper Toner
About 9 months ago, my laser printer's low toner light started blinking. So I bought a new cartridge about 6 months ago. Well, many hundred pages later, I am still waiting for the toner to run out . Not that I am complaining (although ... I cannot remember where I put that new toner cartridge when this one eventually does run dry). Today's word is chiastic . chiasmus [ky-AZ-mus] (plural -mi), a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. This may involve a repetition of the same words ("Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure" --Byron) or just a reversed parallel between two corresponding pairs of ideas . . . . The figure is especially common in 18th century English poetry, but is also found in prose of all periods. It is named after the Greek letter chi (x) , indicating a "criss-cross" arrangement of terms. Adjective : chiastic . - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literar...