Omphaloskeptically. (Ryan).(thoughts on the belly button)

Quadrant | May 1, 2002| | Copyright

BROWSING, as occasionally I do, through old volumes of Who's Who in Australia, I chanced to flick over page 668 of the issue of 1980. There was the biography of my old friend Cyril Pearl, author and editor, journalist, historian and wit. His recreations were listed as: exploring social myths, discovering Australian wines, omphaloskepsis. Omphaloskepsis? I'd known Cyril pretty well over many years, but never suspected him of that (whatever it was).

The Shorter Oxford gave little help but, falling back on my own grasp of classical Greek (about fourteen words), I ...

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