Yeah, she's got a special gift. I think it involves judicious use of a thesaurus.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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Dana - Nov 21, 2003 8:48:07 am PST #6669 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Beverly - Nov 21, 2003 9:00:37 am PST #6670 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
judicious use of a thesaurus
I was just about to suggest someone take her thesaurus away. Spade a spade, woman! Plus...
...she actually used the phrase, "heaving bosom."
I have no words.
Dana - Nov 21, 2003 9:02:30 am PST #6671 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
This one time (not at band camp) she got all pissed at someone who questioned her use of the word "belletristic."
Nutty - Nov 21, 2003 9:04:27 am PST #6672 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So, that would be more along the lines of injudicious use of a thesaurus, yeah?
Or slapdash, careless, imprudent, casual, slipshod, reckless, lackadaisical, hasty....
Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 21, 2003 9:12:16 am PST #6673 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
On a totally unrelated sideline, I once heard a very funny radio sketch which involved Roget-- but not Roget as the biographies portray him: this Roget was obssesed with sex. Each sentance would start out normally, "I was walking down the road..." go into a list of alternatives, "lane, alleyway," and end up with something porny, "passage, back passage, entrance, opening, hole, vagina..."
Okay, so that wasn't a great example. But it was a very Buffista sketch, in many ways, and I'm sorry I don't own a copy on tape. t /tangent
erikaj - Nov 21, 2003 9:37:26 am PST #6674 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
I've no clue what "belletristic" means. None.
Dana - Nov 21, 2003 9:38:35 am PST #6675 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
None of us did either.
And she used it in a drabble. There's no excuse for using that word in a drabble.
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2003 9:39:54 am PST #6676 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From M-W (because I certainly didn't know):
a writer of belles lettres, literature that is an end in itself and not merely informative;
Nutty - Nov 21, 2003 9:40:36 am PST #6677 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think it relates to belles letres? Lessee --
Main Entry: bel·le·trist Pronunciation: bel-'le-trist Function: noun Etymology: belles lettres Date: 1816 : a writer of belles lettres - bel·le·tris·tic /"be-l&-'tris-tik/ adjective
So, yeah, I gather it means someone who writes pretty. (Or wrote pretty, in France, in 1816.)
Am-Chau, that skit sounds like an old Benny Hill thing I saw once, where a "feminist" lady teacher was replacing all the masculine words with feminine equivalents. It was a story about Sandy and Womandy, the second of whom was very intellilady.
Lyra Jane - Nov 21, 2003 9:40:48 am PST #6678 of 10000
Up with the sun
Without checking a dictionary, I know belle lettres are sort of personal essays/criticism, so I'd guess it means something like "personal writings-like." It is kind of obscure and unnecessary for use in a drabble, however.
Edit: And x-post.