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Dear Good Netizen:
Serendipity is a funny little feeling, they say ...
Check out the full Serendipity LP, new music from Flower Prince.
Sincerely,
Treille Bon
AKA Flower Prince
AKA The Fool
P.S. Many thanks to the following artists whose work from the public domain was sampled in this musical composition:
1. Service - Featured Memories
2. ZZAQQ - Disc & Peridot
P.S.S. The Etymology of "Ecstatic" from etymology.com
ecstatic (adj.)
1590s, "mystically absorbed," from Greek ekstatikos "unstable, inclined to depart from," from ekstasis (see ecstasy). Meaning "characterized by or subject to intense emotions" is from 1660s, now usually pleasurable ones, but not originally always so. Related: Ecstatical; ecstatically.
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ecstasy (n.)
Origin and meaning of ecstasylate 14c., extasie "elation," from Old French estaise "ecstasy, rapture," from Late Latin extasis, from Greek ekstasis "entrancement, astonishment, insanity; any displacement or removal from the proper place," in New Testament "a trance," from existanai "displace, put out of place," also "drive out of one's mind" (existanai phrenon), from ek "out" (see ex-) + histanai "to place, cause to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm."
Used by 17c. mystical writers for "a state of rapture that stupefied the body while the soul contemplated divine things," which probably helped the meaning shift to "exalted state of good feeling" (1610s). Slang use for the drug 3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine dates from 1985. Formerly also spelled ecstasie, extacy, extasy, etc. Attempts to coin a verb to go with it include ecstasy (1620s), ecstatize (1650s), ecstasiate (1823), ecstasize (1830).
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- Trance