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Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, ex 06549© 2001by Hilda Raz All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Designed by Dika Eckersley. Set in Quadraat by B. Williams& Associates. 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the back ofthe book for Aaron Link Trans-, prefix. The Latin preposition trans, across, to or on the farther side of, beyond, over,... beyond the boundaryor frontier... to look through, to transcend, to transcribe... to hand over, to lead across ... a crossing. In English ... the chief uses are as follows: 1. With the sense across, through, over, to or on the other side, beyond ... from oneperson, state, or thing to another. 2. In verbs, as in transboard, transearth, trans/ashion, tranship, trans-shape, transtime. 3. In adjectives with the sense across, crossing or on the other side of 4. With the sense beyond, surpassing, transcending. Oxford English Dictionary What Survives Who says that all mustvanish? Who knows,perhapsthe flight of the bird youwound remains, and perhapsflowerssurvive caresses in us, in their ground. It isn't the gesturethatlasts, but it dresses you again in gold armor - from breasttoknees and the battle was so pure an Angel wearsit afteryou. Rainer Maria Rilke, translated byJ. B. Leichman ...