necessary neologisms

sometimes it is necessary to make a new word to express an idea (see also: Thought for Food)

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

wax and wane...poetic, lyrical, prosaic

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wax lyrical wane lyrical wax poetic wane poetic wax prosaic wane prosaic
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

self-bespelling, self-bespellment, self-lulling

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when someone, as it were, puts a spell over their self with words to believe or accept something. a kind of self-lulling. (conceived w...
Monday, May 27, 2013

ideography

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as there is geography, so there could be an ideography, a kind of world of ideas, mapped, as it were, in which one travels, explores, become...
Friday, May 24, 2013

sleepwriting = somnscribing

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as there is sleepwalking, somnabulism, so there should be sleepwriting, somnscribing both in the direct sense, and in the indirect sense of...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

pneumagraphy

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as there is geology (from the Greek γῆ, gê, "earth" and λόγος, logos, "study") and geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, ge...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

theophany? physiophany?

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over the centuries, the "Sinai theophanies" of the "burning bush", the storm phenomena on Mount Sinai , the guiding colu...
Friday, October 5, 2012

eulogy to monsters

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There should indeed be an historical eulogy to monsters written, as they have played such a vital part in the testing and trials of humanity...
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People read mostly to find or forget their lives, works, selves... I found much of myself and life reflected in Hesse's "Steppenwolf", hence the blogname. (If you have not read his work from 1927, you perhaps wont fully understand the "angle" of this blog either.)
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