Unprecedented: a verbal serpent bites its tail – plus one!

[ by Charles Cameron — what’s unprecedented here is and isn’t the serpent biting its tail, depending on which end of the metaphor you’re contemplating ]

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Here:

We are living through an unprecedented use of the term “unprecedented” pic.twitter.com/JlZlaWQ0y3

— Jay Van Bavel (@jayvanbavel) May 2, 2020

It’s a beauty!

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And I’m adding a second serpent, as a Sunday Surprise:

Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the mirror) for Cello and Piano by Arvo Pärt