Byronic March 19, 2024 #words alluringly dark, mysterious and moody (typically used of a man); characteristic of Lord Byron or his poetry blowzy March 18, 2024 #words having a sloppy or unkempt appearance or aspect Karl Marx March 18, 2024 #quotes "You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths.” plotz March 16, 2024 #words be strongly affected with frustration, excitement or other strong emotion Jennifer Egan March 16, 2024 #quotes “If the pain makes thought impossible, focus on navigation.” Frida Kahlo March 16, 2024 “Why do you study so much? What are you looking for? … I already know everything, without reading or writing. A short while ago… I was a girl walking in a world of colors… Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice. It’s as if I had learned everything at the same time, in a matter of seconds… I grew up in a few instants and now everything is dull and flat.” callichrome* March 15, 2024 #invented-words a beautiful color Esther Yi March 15, 2024 #quotes “Here we have data disguised as philosophy, information disguised as art. We no longer go to church once a week; we attend a stadium concert once a year.” descry March 14, 2024 #words to catch sight of, or to find out/discover Poor Things March 14, 2024 #quotes “Do not cry into the wound. You’ll kill me faster with sepsis.” impresario March 13, 2024 #words a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas globuliferous March 13, 2024 #words having or containing globules feckless March 13, 2024 #words lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible Norman Mailer March 13, 2024 #quotes "Definition has a value. If an experience is precise, one can know a little more of what is happening to oneself. It is in those marriages and love affairs which are neither good nor bad, not quite interesting nor altogether awful that anxiety flows like a muddy river.” somnific March 11, 2024 #words tending to induce sleep Richard Selzer March 11, 2024 #quotes “Yes, it is the exact location of the soul I am after. The smell of it is in my nostrils.” [see more] carouse March 10, 2024 #words to drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way; a lively, noisy drinking party Emma Goldman March 10, 2024 #quotes “It is well to consider that laziness results either from special privileges, or physical and mental abnormalities…” mélange March 9, 2024 #words a collection or mixture of various things hirsutism March 9, 2024 #words hairy Jennifer Egan March 9, 2024 #quotes “You’re cloaking your lust in logic.” akimbo March 7, 2024 #words with hands on the hips and elbows turned outward Audre Lorde March 7, 2024 "Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.” august March 5, 2024 #words (adjective) impressive & respected contretemps March 3, 2024 #words a minor dispute or disagreement; an unexpected unfortunate circumstance; an instance that occurs at an unfortunate time Søren Kiekegaard March 3, 2024 #quotes "And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as the art of possibility?" Alberto Cairo and Lauren Klein March 3, 2024 #quotes "A reduction in complexity is a reduction in humanity." risible March 2, 2024 #words provoking laughter through being ludicrous. (derivs: risibility, risibly) ambrosial March 2, 2024 #words pertaining to or worthy of the gods; succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy; divine Ottessa Moshfegh March 2, 2024 #quotes “Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.” Dolly Parton March 2, 2024 #quotes "I always say that plastic surgeons are all alike, they’re always making mountains out of molehills.” fritillary February 29, 2024 #words any of several orange-brown nymphalid butterflies, usually marked with black lines and dots and with silvery spots on the undersides of the wings. limerence February 28, 2024 #words the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically experienced involuntarily and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation of one's feelings but not primarily for a sexual relationship. Arthur Miller February 27, 2024 #quotes "Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away." Jennifer Egan February 26, 2024 #quotes “‘I'm not sure’ is acceptable only when followed, coyly, by ‘You'll have to convince me.’” Time Magazine February 24, 2024 #quotes "Tempus fugit, assholes." Jennifer Egan February 24, 2024 #quotes “Fatherless girls may invest in the moon with a certain paternal promise.” grotesquerie February 22, 2024 #words [mass noun] grotesque quality or grotesque things collectively (ex.: "the necessity for the grotesquerie of the space race") asperity February 22, 2024 #words something that is harsh or difficult to endure, especially something that is harsh to the senses colophon February 17, 2024 #words a publisher's emblem or imprint, especially one on on the title page or spine of a book atraxia February 17, 2024 #words absence of mental disturbance; abundance, serenity, and tranquility ampoule February 17, 2024 #words a sealed glass capsule containing a liquid, especially a measured quantity ready for injecting inimical February 14, 2024 #words tending to obstruct or harm Barrington Moore Jr. February 14, 2024 #quotes “You may protest in words as much as you like. There is but one condition attached to the freedom we would very much like to encourage: your protests may be as loud as possible as long as they remain ineffective.” [see more] seriocomic February 12, 2024 #words combining the serious and the comic; serious in intention but jocular in manner or vice versa ennui February 12, 2024 #words a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of occupation or excitement; boredom anodyne February 11, 2024 #words (adjective) not likely to provoke offense or dissent; inoffensive, often deliberately so nymphalid February 10, 2024 #words an insect of a large family of strikingly marked butterflies that have small forelegs not used for walking Robert Burton February 10, 2024 #quotes “I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, ‘no better cure than business.’” Octavia Butler February 10, 2024 #quotes "All too often, especially young men, will feel, ‘Oh, if it was me, I would just…’ and they have some simple solution that wouldn’t work at all and would probably get them killed. Because they don’t really understand how serious it is when the whole society is literally arrayed against you and arrayed to really keep you in your place. If you get seriously out of line, they will kill you because they fear you." scordatura February 9, 2024 #words the technique of altering the normal tuning of a stringed instrument to produce particular effects Jennifer Egan February 8, 2024 #quotes “The goal is to be both irresistible and invisible.” George Orwell February 8, 2024 #quotes “And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.” dolour February 6, 2024 #words a painful grief or suffering; a difficult or unpleasant situation Gabriel García Márquez February 6, 2024 #quotes "If you don't believe in God, at least be superstitious." copybook February 5, 2024 #words (adjective) free from flaws, defects or errors; serving as the ideal model or example for something mirth February 3, 2024 #words amusement which you express by laughing Pablo Picasso February 1, 2024 #quotes "Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” calendrics January 31, 2024 #words the reckoning and recording of time over long periods; the creation and maintenance of a calendar foment January 28, 2024 #words to stir up, to rouse, to instigate cromulent January 28, 2024 #words of a level that just barely meets one's needs or standards Martha Graham January 28, 2024 #quotes "I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. One can always lament, you know - but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard." Anaïs Nin January 28, 2024 #quotes “Already I know he cannot conquer me, ever. I keep it a secret from him.” Claire-Louise Bennett January 27, 2024 #quotes “Because as it turns out the inside of my thighs were trembling terribly. If you don’t do much at the time it all goes on afterwards. Of course you join in, of course there is no not doing very much, you can’t switch your body off–how did I not know that? Will I eat something? Cheese on toast maybe? Do you feel awful? Is this terrible? Are you going to cry? Well are you? Or are you going to make yourself cry because you feel you should cry? Was it really awful or was it merely unpleasant? Make up your mind now and stick to it–are you going to get into a state about this or not? And then I get irritated with thinking about it…” nakba January 26, 2024 #words an event resulting in great loss John Henry Giles, to House January 26, 2024 #quotes "You got THIS, the thing you think about all the time, thing that keeps you south of normal. Yeah, makes us great, makes us the best. All we miss out on is everything else." chicanery January 25, 2024 #words the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose stultify January 24, 2024 #words to cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine fixity January 24, 2024 #words the state of being unchanging or permanent Carl Sagan January 24, 2024 #quotes “The simplest one-celled organism is a far more complex machine than the finest pocket watch.” Michelangelo January 23, 2024 #quotes “I shall be home in September… I work harder than anyone who ever lived. I am not well and worn out with this stupendous labor and yet I am patient in order to achieve the desired end.” equanimity January 22, 2024 #words the state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress Oscar Wilde January 22, 2024 #quotes "As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for school-boys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted." cordiform January 19, 2024 #words heart-shaped aplomb January 19, 2024 #words self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation collywobbles January 18, 2024 #words intense anxiety or nervousness, especially with stomach queasiness retrodox* January 16, 2024 #invented-words an outdated opinion or position Franz Kafka January 16, 2024 #quotes “This imperfection is not congenital and therefore so much the more painful to bear." If You Can’t Convince Them, Confuse Them  | collage January 16, 2024 #art collage, via pinterest tool Virginia Woolf January 15, 2024 #quotes “And for heaven’s sake, publish nothing until you’re thirty.” Lynn Nottage, in The Paris Review January 15, 2024 #quotes "Research can be a form of procrastination, but it's the sort that is healthy for my spirit.” Joan Didion January 15, 2024 #quotes "I think we are all well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends." sybaritic January 14, 2024 #words to do with sensuous luxury Kurt Vonnegut January 14, 2024 #quotes “The child of suicide will naturally think of death, the big one, as a logical solution to any problem, even one in simple algebra.” Nobody Loves Franz Kafka | collage January 13, 2024 #art collage, via pinterest tool élan January 12, 2024 #words energy, style, and enthusiasm majolica January 12, 2024 #words earthenware covered with an opaque tin glaze and decorated on the glaze before firing kismet January 12, 2024 #words destiny, fate Kentucky Pharmacies By Opioid Pill Distribution (2006) October 11, 2023 #art