Some of you have been wondering why this blog is called Chasing Eidolons. It's not called Chasing E-Idols, which must be some kind of Japanese semi-norp portal.
If you don't know what norp is, urbandictionary it.
An "eidolon" is a wonderful word meaning:
If you don't know what norp is, urbandictionary it.
An "eidolon" is a wonderful word meaning:
1. A phantom; an apparition.
2. An image of an ideal.
Which is beautiful and ironic at the same time. Why should a word that describes an ideal also be a world that describes a phantom or an ideal? Embedded in the word itself is already a deep understanding of the impossibility, perhaps futility of having an ideal - it's only and image, a phantom, a transitory apparition.
Which is beautiful and ironic at the same time. Why should a word that describes an ideal also be a world that describes a phantom or an ideal? Embedded in the word itself is already a deep understanding of the impossibility, perhaps futility of having an ideal - it's only and image, a phantom, a transitory apparition.
2 comments:
http://www.dotastrategy.com/hero-28-DarchrowTheEnigma.html
Right on. Darchrow rules!
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