From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On 7 Oct 2025 14:03:11 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:   
      
   >Michael Ikeda  wrote or quoted:   
   >>("Miracle exception" is Kakalio's term for the change in the laws    
   >>of physics needed to account for a superhero's powers.)   
   >   
   >  The Greek "ta physika" means "natural things".   
      
   Well, "the natural things", actually. This, of course became Physics.   
      
   But what is really interesting is that, when the books were arranged,   
   the /next/ book was "ta meta ta physika" -- which became Metaphysics.   
      
   Ah, metaphysics -- as indescribable now as it was then.   
      
   Well, if it had been describable then it would have had an actual   
   /name/, wouldn't it. Not just "the book after ta physika", which   
   merely denotes it's position..   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)