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retrospection

Postby Bailey » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:06 pm

ret·ro·spect (rtr-spkt)
n.
A review, survey, or contemplation of things in the past.
v. ret·ro·spect·ed, ret·ro·spect·ing, ret·ro·spects
v.intr.
1. To contemplate the past.
2. To refer back.
v.tr.
To look back on or contemplate (things past).
Idiom:
in retrospect
Looking backward or reviewing the past.


[From Latin *retrspectus, past participle of retrspicere, to look back at : retr-, retro- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]

retro·spection n.

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I'm sure I'm the only one; my rememberer is strange it goes way back, as do I, and clearly recalls stuff people said verbatum, but can't remember much of this last year but 50 years from now I guess I will. And the things it wants me to think about are what I wish I could forget!

mark New-Year-my-mind-takes-me-back-darn-it Bailey

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, Make the most of it...
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Postby gailr » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:18 pm

I suspect that it can take time to become circumspect enough that introspection is not upsetting in retrospect.

-gailr
whose spectacles are once again clearing the snowdrifts...

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Postby Perry » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:37 am

Upon inspection, I find respect in every aspect of Gail's reply.
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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Postby Bailey » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:30 am

Ah, how novel, and yet, and yet I've never even thought of using spectacles to clear the walk.

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Postby gailr » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:33 am

Ahh, Bailey, where is your Yankee ingenuity? You can use bifcocal lenses to focus those weak January rays to melt glaciers from the windshield...

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Postby skinem » Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:44 pm

Ahh, Bailey, where is your Yankee ingenuity? You can use bifcocal lenses to focus those weak January rays to melt glaciers from the windshield...
Tsk, tsk...contributing to global warming.


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