Word of the Week: Word #7

1. The word: aphorism
2. Where I read it: ZZ Packer's short story "Brownies"
3. The sentence I found it in: Back at the A.M.E church where our Brownie meetings ere held, Mrs. Margolin was especially fond of imparting religious aphorisms by means of acrostics -- "Satan" was the "serpent Always Tempting and Noisome"; she'd refer to the "Bible" as "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth."
4. Dictionary definition: A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage.
5. New sentence: Billy interpreted that one line from the lyrics of that new song as an aphorism.