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What goes hidden is rarely lost, only waiting for the right kind of looking.
means Kept out of sight or knowledge; concealed, obscured, or not readily apparent.
from The past participle of "hide," from Old English "hȳdan," to conceal or cover up. It traces back through Proto-Germanic to a root possibly related to a wider Indo-European word meaning to cover — a cousin, fittingly, of words like "hut" and "hoard," both places where things are tucked away. The strong-verb past form "hidden" (rather than the regular "hided") is itself a kind of survival, an old grammatical shape that endured while many others faded — waiting, you might say, for the right kind of looking.
- Etymology
- From Old English hydan, to bury or conceal
- Brain trick
- Things in plain sight slip attention most easily
- Animal art
- Octopuses vanish into texture and color in milliseconds
- Iceberg ratio
- Roughly 90 percent stays hidden underwater
- Hidden tracks
- Albums once buried secret songs after silence
voynich manuscript — 15th-century encoded book at yale's beinecke library, still undeciphered after 500+ years
antikythera mechanism — ancient greek analog computer recovered from shipwreck in 1901, purpose unknown for decades
wow signal — unexplained radio signal detected august 15, 1977 in ohio, never repeated