[1]#chimera * My word of the day.* I love the rare words like
  these that straddle the line between reality and fantasy,
  simplicity and complexity so well, all depending on the context
  they're used in.[2]chimeragraphI had a suddenly realization;
  pretty neat, too. [I'm sure it's not new of course but new for
  me]:

  2000+ years from now, whatever fragments of literature and
  popular culture may remain available for archeologists to
  discover, all of this precision over language may end up
  becoming meaningless, as "what words mean" will likely be
  jumbled together and they will have to piece together our
  present as their past and will likely come up with some
  extraordinary ideas.

  I looked at the multiple contexts of the word Chimera:

  It is one of the first "debunked" mythological creatures on
  record in a modern sense.

  Today's general meaning tends to make it synonymous with
  illusions, fantasies, wishful thinking.

  YET, in biology, a chimera is a very real creature; a
  combination of hybrid parts, either plant or animal.

  All chimera.

  How will 2000 years hence view the chimera? Food for thought.
  They may determine that the ancient myths were correct, and it
  took 2000+ years to discover the first chimera.

References

  Visible links
  1. https://plus.google.com/s/%23chimera
  2. http://icopiedyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chimeragraph.png

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