Genesisic

[Wilson Gray]

Their *lives* were parables? What an interesting concept!

-Wilson

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> Not in OED.
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> 1976 C.D.B. Bryan _Friendly Fire_ (N.Y.: Putnam) 55: To them, American
> history was of Genesisic simplicity, its early Presidents Old Testament
> prophets whose lives were parables of selflessness and virtue."
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> JL
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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