For our club, we will be using:

(Konos Connection / 1998 / Paperback)

The Definition of Fiction

fic·tion (fkshn) n.

1. a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.1. b. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.2. A lie.3. a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.3. b. The category of literature comprising worksof this kind, including novels and short stories.4. Law Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.

[Middle English ficcioun, from Old French fiction, from Latin ficti, fictin-, from fictus, past participle of fingere, to form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]
fiction·al adj.fiction·ali·ty (-sh-nl-t) n.fiction·al·ly adv.
Word History: To most people "the latest fiction" means the latest novels or stories rather than the most recently invented pretense or latest lie. All three senses of the word fiction point back to its source, Latin ficti, "the action of shaping, a feigning, that which is feigned." Ficti in turn was derived from fingere, "to make by shaping, feign, make up or invent a story or excuse." Our first instance of fiction, recorded in a work composed around 1412, was used in the sense "invention of the mind, that which is imaginatively invented." It is not a far step from this meaning to the sense "imaginative literature," firstrecorded in 1599.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Wassail: Hot Tea and Cider Punch


In the modern day, Wassail is most commonly recognized as an obscure reference in various traditional Christmas carols: "Wassail, wassail all over the town," for example, or "Here we come a-wassailing among the leaves so green". Wassail-themed songs were once sung by winter carollers who went from house to house, singing to the residents in exchange for small gifts of money, food and drink (often wassail.)

6 cups water
8 tea bags
2 1/4 cups sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon or 4 cinnamon sticks
32 cloves or 1 tsp ground cloves
5 cups cranberry juice
2 1/2 cups orange juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 cup grapefruit juice
4 cups apple cider
mandarin orange slices
marachino cherries

Boil water, tea bags, sugar, cinnamon, and cloves for 5 minutes. Remove tea bags. Add juices. Add more water/sugar to taste. Serve 1 cherry and 1 orange slice in each mug. Drink hot. Refrigerate extra and reheat when needed.

(For all my writers...what person is this written in? First, Second, or Third?)
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