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But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent

Some choice words from Virginia Woolf: Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art. How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what [...]

(Documenting my trips to the Dictionary.) Synecdoche: syn·ec·do·che (si-nek-duh-kee) noun A metaphor by which an inclusive term stands for something included, or vice versa; A metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole (hand for laborer) or vice-versa (the court for the judge). synonyms: trope, figure of speech, figure, image

I bit my knuckles, forgetting that that hand held the other vial, the second vial, and my throat was seared with fire. Everything wavered, a bright fog descended across my eyes like a blindfold, which an unseen hand then slowly began to lift. I looked, petrified, at the transformation taking place, realizing in a sudden [...]

(Documenting my trips to the Dictionary.) Threnody: Thren’o-dy (then’ ə-dė) noun A song of lamentation; a dirge.