http://wordie.org/words/alembic Comments for the word 'Alembic' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/alembic#comments "The sound of her anger was condensed, like acid, perhaps due to the <a href="/words/alembic">alembic</a> of the pump case around them. It functioned like an acoustic concave mirror, increased and concentrated the tone. She had a melodious voice. Enhanced in the Zahle School girls' chorus. Conducted by Hess-Theissen. But at the same time it could be a whiplash. He had seen her quick-freeze an entire super-elliptical conference table of chief engineers."<br />- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:29:34 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/alembic#comments http://wordie.org/words/alembic#comments I first saw this in an RW Emerson metaphor. "Thus is Art a nature passed through the alembic of man." Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:09:09 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/alembic#comments