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The line you can't see until you're standing well past it.
means More of something than is needed, allowed, or useful — the surplus that spills past the limit.
from From Latin 'excessus,' a 'going out' or 'departure,' from 'excedere' — 'ex-' (out) plus 'cedere' (to go, to yield), the same 'cedere' lurking in 'proceed,' 'recede,' and 'concede.' So an excess was literally a stepping beyond, a walking out past the boundary. It reached English through Old French 'exces' in the late Middle Ages, and the idea of overstepping a limit was baked in from the very start.
- word origin
- From Latin excedere, to go beyond, to depart
- luxury logic
- Diamonds are worthless precisely because we crave their surplus
- body math
- Hyponatremia: drinking too much water can be lethal
- market rule
- Surplus crops are often destroyed to keep prices up
- art doctrine
- Blake claimed the road of excess leads to wisdom
henry viii's feast hall — tudor king consumed up to 13 courses daily, famously excessive appetite and spending
tulip mania 1637 — dutch golden age saw bulb prices reach astronomical levels before market crash