http://wordie.org/words/shark Comments for the word 'Shark' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/shark#comments its use as a verb (to live by fraud or trickery) may be somewhat archaic Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:34:20 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/shark#comments http://wordie.org/words/shark#comments Some species of shark must continually swim to avoid <a href="/words/asphyxiation">asphyxiation</a>. Something along the same lines is true of the human brain. Deprived of all inflow of sensation, it must create its own (ala John Lilly's hallucination-inducing isolation tank experimentation). "Impressions" (q.v. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdjieff">Gurdjieff</a>) are "food" for the brain, grist for the mental mill. Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:49:21 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/shark#comments