The Two Faces of January The Two Faces of January The Two Faces of January (1964) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. Its title alludes to the two faces of the Roman god Janus, after whom the month of January was named. Biographer Andrew Wilson, in his 2003 publication "Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith" claims the title is 'appropriate for the janus-faced, flux-like nature of her protagonists'. Chester MacFarland is an alcoholic con artist traveling in Greece with his young wife, Colette. McFarland is wanted by the police back in the U.S. for running a Ponzi scheme. In Athens, a Greek
Opposite (semantics) generally be determined by the question "What is the opposite of X ?" The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold). Complementary antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite but whose meanings do not lie on a continuous spectrum ("push", "pull"). Relational antonyms are word pairs where opposite makes sense only in the context of the relationship between the two meanings ("teacher", "pupil"). These