2019 - Day 166/199 - Saturday...Epigone...

From one extreme to the other. Jody and I have seen this old car on the side of the road for the last two weekends, with a for sale sign on the back end of it. I stopped and looked last weekend, and took a closer look at it today. We think it is about a 1939 Ford Opera Coupe. Jody had one of those at one time in his life, and I think it is the car that he and his friend LeRoy travelled through Mexico in, that was in the late '40s or maybe the really early '50s. He has talked often about that car. Otherwise, I did very little of anything today, although I was able to squeeze in a few naps here and there. I will have to go in to the office tomorrow for a couple hours, but that will be A-OK.

Epigone -- Noun. follower, disciple. also; an inferior imitator. "A Terrence Malick epigone, Lowery also relies too heavily on that elder filmmaker's fondness for crepuscular light." Melissa Anderson, Miami New York Times, July 25, 2017

Did You Know? English borrowed epigone from German in the 19th century. The Germans themselves had taken the word from the Latin epigonus, which means "successor." The Latin term followed the Greek epigonos, which was often used in plural to designate the sons of seven legendary Greek leaders who were defeated at Thebes. Epigonos in turn came from the Greek verb epigignesthai, meaning "to be born after." Epi- can mean "after," and gignesthai means "to be born."