text 16 Nov Anatidaephobia

(n) the fear that you are being watched by a duck

text 5 Nov portmanteau

(n) blend: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings

quote 29 Oct
I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.
— Marshall McLuhan
text 28 Oct chaconne

(n): a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression

quote 27 Oct
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.
— Lemony Snicket
text 26 Oct leitmotiv

(n): a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation

quote 25 Oct
Life is short. Eat dessert first!
— Jacques Torres
quote 24 Oct
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
— C. S. Lewis
quote 24 Oct
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
text 22 Oct aesthete

(n): one who cultivates great sensitivity to beauty.


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