Trifecta: Week Seventy-Two
April 11, 2013
For this week’s Trifecta Challenge the prompt is Alchemy …
- a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
- a power or process of transforming something common into something special
- an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
I will use 33 words …
‘Careful words are alchemy as they wash over the truth gilding it to fine prose to delight and energise. Subversively, they encrust it with a gross canker that stifles its living breath’.
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Wow!So well put in so few words & I agree:-)
Thanks … each time I think 333 words but only 33 happen ! _/\_ xx
:-)so the 33 words must be a real breeze for you 😀
You’re right! Words have immense power.
Thank You _/\_ x
Surprisingly good, and thought-provoking, not a mere 33 of them in reality…
Thank you _/\_ x
Indeed. Well said.
Thank you! _/\_ x
Very nice! I’d love to see your knowledge of dead languages work its way in. I’ll have to look over your archives! Glad I found this site!
It doesn’t come in as much as I hoped but it is there … Thank You for prompting me … Namaste _/\_ x
Ooo very cool (:
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Love words washing over truth.
This week in UK a famous ‘stateswoman’ died and the papers have been filled with eulogies about her. And the words used were so carefully framed that it was unclear whether they were talking about the same woman. This post was inspired by that!
33 very well chosen words.
Thank you _/\_ x