Mar 03, 2006 17:14
prehensile (pri-HEN-sil, -syl) adjective
1. Capable of seizing or grasping, especially by wrapping around.
2. Skilled at keen perception or mental grasp of an idea or concept.
3. Greedy.
[From French prehensile, coined by French naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc
De Buffon, from Latin prehensus.]
Someone drove a car onto campus today and ran over people in the pit.
It's as unsettling as when the two boys fell from third floor Stacy last week. It makes me want to crawl under the covers and hug myself. I can't close my eyes.
I don't understand how anyone could do that. I just don't understand it. How can people make sense of people? Most of us [all of us] can't even make sense of ourselves. How are we to make sense of the world?
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. -Abraham Lincoln