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Oswaldo Costa

Oswaldo Costa
2009 Bernard Moreau Volnay-Santenots 1er Cru 13.5%
Efrem Zimbalist. Now there's a name. And someone once saw fit to bestow it a second time. Such a name has always, since time immemorial, suggested a fusion of Avedis Zildjian cymbals with the French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, whose work I admire. Avedis, Avedis. I would have a second son just to name him Avedis. Though perhaps Avedis could be a girl too. Anyway, so I saw a stray bottle of this Bernard Moreau Volnay at a recent Crush Progressive Sale and bit, on the cheap, trusting that the Moreau alleles would do me right. Jeanne Moreau has a role to play in there somewhere. I may be misusing the word allele, but I am hopelessly drawn to a word half of whose letters are Ls. So, the Moreau was uncorked last night. Sorry, but I don’t have the patience to wait ten years for an unknown quantity to blossom. An odd kirschy smell signaled something was amiss. The mouth was odd too, with an unpleasantly bitter finish, saved from greater defectiveness by the grace of youth (ravages require time). But, through this veil of wrongness, a modernity of extraction and wood could be discerned. Modernous alleles. Enough to make me consider relegating this latter-day Moreau to one of the circles, unless someone has something to say that might stay the hand. Definitely no Avedis.
 
Actually, the way you stated the rule, we can also include all the words of the form [consonant][vowel]ll -- ball, hell, will, toll, mull, etc.

//pedantic
 
Right you are, but four letter words with 50% ls are dime a dozen, and ubiquity dampens charm; it's the six letter ones that lull my alleles into frolicking in alluvial alleyways.
 
Genes are made up of pairs, each one of which may be either dominant or recessive in terms of manifesting its trait (although this is sort of a misnomer since recessive genes may be tied to manifested traits: one of the reason there is a higher incidence in the population, of muscular dystrophy, which typically kills before the age of reproduction, than one would expect from the statistics of genetic coding error is that the "recessive" allele gives greater protection against, I think, typhoid fever). Either one of the pair is an allele. A gene has two of them. There may be other meanings of the word, but that's the one I learned team teaching Darwin with the biologists. I don't know if that's what you had in mind or not. From context, I would guess you meant gene. But I don't know that allele would be wrong.
 
I think alleles are limited sections on genes that control development of particular traints. As you say, they come in pairs. Joe knows more, it would be easy enough to look up.

As an artist, of course, Oswaldo must be granted license in usage for the purpose of effect.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
I think alleles are limited sections on genes that control development of particular traints. As you say, they come in pairs. Joe knows more, it would be easy enough to look up.

As an artist, of course, Oswaldo must be granted license in usage for the purpose of effect.
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I'm not sure I see the distinction between this definition and mine.
 
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