ghostis: stranger, hence to be welcomed or feared; break bread, or break his head. (Etymology)

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1. Amazing post, but I would love to know what this banner image is from….can you please provide the piece?

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   1. Hey, Duval–I’d love to—only the banner is a randomized image from one of about fifty uploads…so I don’t “see” what you see. Can you describe it? If you describe it I might be able to say…

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      1. I just now realized that! The image is of several figures in greyscale, the main figure is a man with a duck-like face holding a gun. The other figures are on surfboards.

         Thank you!

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         1. Sounds like Nicola Verlato:

            https://biblioklept.org/2012/07/23/another-episode-nicola-verlato/

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            1. Yep! Thanks so much!

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2. […] displaced, shifting—it’s many houses. Portion leads him etymologically to ghostis (a root I’ve long been obsessed with), a word that condenses a series of oppositions—and, as the narrator points out, provides its […]

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3. […] might represent a “forced hospitality rebranded as hospitality” reminds me that the etymological root of “host” is “ghostis,” meaning stranger. This root also give us hostility, hospital, hostage….and it encapsulates the strange […]

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4. […] displaced, shifting—it’s many houses. Portion leads him etymologically to ghostis (a root I’ve long been obsessed with), a word that condenses a series of oppositions—and, as the narrator points out, provides its […]

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