what is the circle?

(welcome lines, connected ends)

the circle. (n) of multiple origins. partly a borrowing from latin. partly a borrowing from french.

etymology. from middle english circle, cercle, from old french cercle and latin circulus, diminutive of latin circus (“circle, circus”), from ancient greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring”), related to old english hring (“ring”).

for our purposes,

the circle is a never-ending loop of words that chime in, touching, rubbing, crashing, and sometimes colliding into each other so hard that at a sub-atomic level they trigger large amounts of energy to burst forth into the world (scientists have speculated this to be a form of nuclear fission, but studies aren’t advanced enough to speak definitively on the phenomenon).

don’t join the circle

(it will become too powerful)

the circle, n. a tight-knit group who engage in a weekly practice of reading words and letting them wash over their physical bodies like a time-worn spell.