to divine status
of extravagant
pumpkins --
October
. . . . . . . .
The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'pumpkinification." I love everything about this word except trying to spit it out.
I found it fascinating that it was first used nearly 2000 years ago by Seneca, as a title of a satire about the deification of the Roman Emperor Claudius.
I had expected the citations to be of Cinderella. Seeking further info in Wikipedia, it turns out there are thousands of folk tale variations on the Cinderella story, going back to - coincidentally - the ancient Greeks, but it only got really popular when the French author Charles Perrault in 1697 added a few embellishments to the story: the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother and the glass slippers.
The image is one I put on my niece's Halloween card. Happy Great Pumpkin Day to all!
