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From:         Jon Sykes <jon.sykes@PS.GE.COM>
Subject:      Agon comes from Greek agon,
              "a struggle or contest." It is relate d to agony.
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I found this definition particularly chucklesome:
Agon comes from Greek agon, "a struggle or contest." It is related to agony.

decagon
hexagon
nonagon
octagon
paragon

VANAGON?

Word of the Day for Thursday August 9, 2001:

agon \AH-gahn; ah-GOHN\,
plural agones \uh-GOH-neez\ noun:
A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and
antagonist in a literary work.

Conflicts about moral claims are part of what it means to be human, and a
political ideal stripped of sentimentality and the utopian temptation is one
committed to the notion that political life is a permanent agon between
clashing, even incompatible goods.
--Jean Bethke Elshtain, Real Politics

It is the irresolvable love-hate agon between men and women that drives all
cultures.
--Lawrence Osborne, "False goddess," Salon, June 28, 2000

Almost every poem Auden wrote in the weeks before and after his arrival in
New York portrayed the agon of an artist in combat with his gift.
--Edward Mendelson, Later Auden

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