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A writer called Cheeseburger Brown has penned a bestiary of traffic-based organisms, interpreting each freeway pattern as "a distributed animal with human components." Here's a sample:
Unfettered, the Epiphysian Cyclosalp is like half a butterfly, its riparian body gilded by a slowly flapping wing of accelerating, gliding Librigenates ebbing and flowing in a stately round. Its insides whorl as partners switch places, benthic turning briefly pelagic, pacer cars joining a rippling pulse of local inertia forward, headlights cross-sweeping.
Don't worry about the unfamiliar words: By the time you get to the passage, they've all been defined.
[Via bOING bOING.]
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librarian|9.4.03 @ 5:02AM|#
e�piph�y�sis n., pl. e�piph�y�ses. 1. The end of a long bone that is originally separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage but that later becomes united to the main bone through ossification. 2. See pineal gland. [Greek epiphusis, an excrescence : epi-, epi- + phusis, growth; --ep�i�phys�i�al or ep�i�phys�e�al adj.
cy�clo�sis n., pl. cy�clo�ses. The streaming rotary motion of protoplasm within certain cells and one-celled organisms. [New Latin, from Greek kuklosis, a surrounding, from kukloun, to surround, from kuklos, circle.
ri�par�i�an adj. Of, on, or relating to the banks of a natural course of water. [From Latin riparius, from ripa, bank.]
ben�thos n. 1. The collection of organisms living on or in sea or lake bottoms. 2. The bottom of a sea or a lake. [Greek.] --ben�thic (-thik) or ben�thon�ic adj.
pe�lag�ic adj. Of, relating to, or living in open oceans or seas rather than waters adjacent to land or inland waters: pelagic birds. [Latin pelagicus, from Greek pelagikos, from pelagos, sea.
CheeseburgerBrown|9.4.03 @ 10:06AM|#
Nice gloss!