VLVL2 (9.5): "A Rented Firebird"

Dave Monroe monrobotics at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 27 10:50:05 CST 2003


"Speeding down the freeway in a rented Firebird, they
both realized it was the first time since the room in
Tokyo that they'd been alone together." (VL, Ch. 9, p.
166)


"a rented Firebird"

Main Entry: phoe·nix 
Pronunciation: 'fE-niks
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English fenix, from Old English,
from Latin phoenix, from Greek phoinix
Date: before 12th century
: a legendary bird which according to one account
lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and
rose alive from the ashes to live another period; also
: a person or thing likened to the phoenix
- phoe·nix·like  /-"lIk/ adjective

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=Phoenix

Reborn on borrowed time?  Let me know ...

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