Wiktionary
TOPOS, noun. A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
TOPOS, noun. (mathematics) A certain mathematical structure found in category theory.
Dictionary definition
TOPOS, noun. A traditional theme or motif or literary convention; "James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses".
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.
