[tied] Re: Anouilh

From: dmilt1896@...
Message: 9450
Date: 2001-09-13

--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:
> >yesterday's luctuous events
>
> 'Luctuous' appears only in James Joyce. 'Eurish', as I recall, is
> the term given to these Joyceanisms.

"Luctuous" is in the OED, quoted from Bailey's 1721 dictionary, but
with no example of actual usage found by OED readers. I'm a bit
confused how it got into a cybalist message -- from Joyce, from a
dictionary, an anglicized Catalan word? I only hope the events it
refers to will be as rare as the t