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Word of the Day for Monday, March 30, 2009ludic \LOO-dik\, adjective: Of or relating to play; characterized by play; playful. Um, there's only one problem: her mother. Who, being a substantial executive, has a somewhat different attitude to the worth of the professions than her wastrel, ludic husband. He is indeed the outstanding imaginative prose stylist of his generation, with an entirely recognizable literary manner, fizzy and playful (I am trying to avoid the words "pyrotechnic" and "ludic"). But within this ludic tale there lurks a tragedy of love and loss that does not lose its tenderness even when embedded in [the author's] perpetually farcical frame of mind. Ludic derives from Latin ludus, "play." Ludicrous, "amusing or laughable," shares the same root. | |||||||||
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