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/lˈɛð/
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NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a river in Hades; the souls of the dead had to drink from it, which made them forget all they had done and suffered when they were alive
How To Use Lethe In A Sentence
- Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable. RVABlogs
- “Myers,” presumably speaking through the medium, produced a stream of poetic, recondite associations from the word Lethe that meant nothing to the medium or the experimenter. Experiencing the Next World Now
- But though they blethered and and grumbled and girned at him, they forgot it all soon enough and laughed about his nonsense.
- “And what are you two auld boys blethering about now?” A Small Death in the Great Glen
- He blethered on about Mike and the party and what he did and who he knew. GO!
- Yes, but does Blethen know what a thesaurus is and how to use it? Sound Politics: In which I join the MSM
- I canna but believe Richard was of a mind to frighten you and nothing more with all his blether about marriage. Healing the Highlander
- A little more and you would have found your Lethe oversoon, old friend. In the Border Country
- * [6573] Oimai men egō ton alēthestaton logon peri toutōn einai ō Sōkrates, meizō tina dunamin einai ē anthrōpeian, tēn themenēn ta prōta onomata tois pragmasin. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
- In his review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Hari Kunzru maintains that what separates this novel from the postmodern novels Lethem clearly admires is that "it’s too good-humored to attain real satiric bite and is often content to drop a name instead of wrestling with the slippery ideas that might make Lethem’s heroes worthy of a true fan’s regard. The Reading Experience