Category: Words
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Fragmentary, No. 27
Looks like what drives me crazyDon’t have no effect on you—But I’m gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too. ✧ Langston Hughes, “Evil”
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Fragmentary, No. 4
[I]t must be remembered, that while our language is yet living, and variable by the caprice of every tongue that speaks it, these words are hourly shifting their relations, and can no more be ascertained in a dictionary, than a grove, in the agitation of a storm, can be accurately delineated from its picture in…
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Negative Forms
A neologism born out of agitation, a discomfort in the abstract body, and a drive to direct turbulent formulations of ephemera out: outward; outside, into the open. Its root, my well-worn friend pensive, traces a spectrum of inversion, beginning with “sorrowfully thoughtful; gloomy, sad, melancholy” (OED); a condition familiar, but unwelcome save for the rainiest…
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