The empire strikes back

There is violence again in Northern Ireland.

Violence that wants to be named "Real IRA".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7938663.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7933990.stm

People asked me - as if I were an expert - why now? Why after a relatively long time without "political manslaughter" men start shooting policemen again? Especially in the peaceful city of Craigavon.  I don't know.

Perhaps hunger and violence are linked. Or maybe it's just the last bloody breath of an army that is dying out.

Munin

Irenic or Irenical: adjective, intended to create peace.

Wissenlust

I am experiencing something not completely new and yet uncommon.

Desidre for greater knowledge; for every possible piece of knowledge man can have. Especially if it doesn't belong to my specific field.

There is a sick joy in suggesting a better word for a translation about chemistry, and a sick displeasure in noticing that after all, I don't know exactly how brain works.

For five years of high school I've been pampered with the idea of the "absolute man" who could master every knowledge. Now, I want more.

Therefore, I am going to study some more right now.

Munin

Phlogiston: noun, a substance believed in earlier times to exist in all xombustible matter and to be released in combustion; the observed effects were subsequently found to be due to oxygen.

From Foyle's Philavery, a treasury of unusual words