Posted by Murrisk on December 27, 2001 at 07:00:05: In Reply to: Re: Excerpt from Patrick Kavanagh's " A Christmas Childhood" posted by Tempus on December 26, 2001 at 15:53:57: Yes Tempus, that poem is an old favourite of mine. I love its imagery. I wish I had known of 'onomatopoeia' when playing Scrabble. I did learn a new word over Christmas while playing Trivial Pursuit. While in 'pursuit of the trivial' I discovered that a spermologer is a collector of trivia or unusual data !!
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