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“L’inconu, trés relativ, c’n’est pas Jesus, vraiment!” — (author unknown)“Ebb tide; I smoke in the darkness and inhale rank seaweed.” — Joseph Brodsky, “Brise Marine”*Odd how a single word invokes an image, dragging memories into footprints over a beach behind it. The verb form of “invoke” comes from the late 14th-century Latin invocare, meaning “to call upon, appeal to.” It slithered into English through the Old French verb <
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