Thursday, July 30, 2009

Apocrypha (from the Greek word ἀπόκρυφα, meaning "those having been hidden away")
My current fixation with the word apocrypha is that I'm putting together a book of odds & sods that haven't really fitted into my other books — small prose pieces, vispo, pwoermds, etc. — which I'd decided to call An Apocrypha.

I used the word for my perceived sense of its meaning as "that which has been left out", more aligned with the definition above rather than either of those used in the post below. In fact, my book flies in the face of Athanasius' categories. I see it as a part of my canon, hope that it's edifying, do not see it as heretical.

But in light of the modern lay meaning of apocryphal as "spurious" or "of uncertain authorship", I'm rethinking my title. Though it'll probably stay—I've a pretty good cover design in mind, with big capital As all through it.

1 comment:

Alex Gildzen said...

I vote for "Odds & Sods."