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Saturday, 25 April 2020

Saturday Rave: Armageddon.

For one reason and another my thoughts have been turning towards short-form writing, specifically the Eastern haiku and the Western one-liner.

A haiku is a poem of exquisite focus, form, beauty and brevity.

A one-liner is a joke that's written as one, um, one line.

This example seemed the right one for today:

So what if I don't know what Armageddon means? It's not the end of the world.

Well, it made me laugh.

Word To Use Today: Armageddon comes via Latin and Greek from the Hebrew har megiddōn, the mountainous Megiddo region of Palestine.






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