Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Title too big to fit here....

new words:

1. apposite
2. ineffable (not really new, more just forgotten, and I do want to revive it because it's a beautiful word!)
(The rest are all from a few of Anthony Lane articles in recent (well, one is from '03) The NY'ers; I very much like his visual images and specifically taut treatment of words!) (I mean come on, AL is a damn wordsmith, listen to THIS: "You come away from the book wrung out, stretched between pity and exasperation, relieved that you didn't have to crouch in the blast area of Lowell's existence (though regretful that you weren't in his classes, at Boston University in the nineteen fifties and later at Harvard), and frankly amazed that any poetry at all, let alone great poetry, was able to emerge from the wreckage." ------WOW! That's visual writing!
3. encomium
4. implacably
5. jud(der)(ing)
6. obsequies
7. magniloquence (I think I already can figure out what this basically means, but I still wrote it down, as I am enamored with the way it sounds when spoken!)
8. quotidian (same as above)

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