Sunday, August 13, 2006

Mystery Word

When the cats awakened me this morning demanding breakfast, there was a word in my head. It was an unfamiliar word. I repeated it to myself so I would not forget it. I fed the cats and went back to sleep.

When I awoke several hours later, I still remembered the word. I looked it up and found it was a real word. For the life of me, I can not recall ever encountering this word before.

The word is Rocambole.

How did this word get in my head?

Update: Of course I had encountered this word before. So now the question becomes: What was my dreaming brain trying to tell me?

2 comments:

Matt said...

That you are not doing nearly enough cooking, perhaps. Maybe your brain will start giving you full recipes soon.

My Alter Ego said...

The funny thing is, when I had previously encountered Rocambole, it was in the non-culinary sense of the word. Had I not had this experience, I would have never known that it was also a kind of garlic.