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Sunday, May 6, 2007
Today’s Word
sparagmos noun [mass noun]
the dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies.
— origin Greek, literally ‘tearing’.
I think the most disturbing part is the idea that it happened so often that they needed a word for it.
