Word of the Day: Tenebrous
According to Merriam-Webster, tenebrous means: shut off from the light (dark or murky) hard to understand, obscure causing gloom I might use the word tenebrous ...
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Word of the Day: Faustian
According to Merriam-Webster, Faustian means: of, relating to, resembling, or suggesting Faust; especially, made or done for present gain without regard for fut...
Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke (2)
Quoted in Lou Salome’s You Alone Are Real to Me: I stand as if blind and in total darkness because my look no longer finds its way to you. The mad rush of...
Word of the Day: Inanition
According to Merriam-Webster, inanition means: The quality or state of being empty. The exhausted condition that results from lack of food and water. The absenc...
Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke
From Duino Elegies, First Elegy: Voices, voices. Listen, my heart, as before now only saints had listened, while that vast call raised them off the ground; yet ...
Quotes From Where Angels Fear To Tread
From Chapter III, 2nd paragraph: The ground floor and the upper floor of that battered house are alike deserted, and the inmates keep to the central portion, ju...
The Small Boat
There is something peculiar in a small boat upon the wide sea. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. Wh...
Word of the Day: Crepuscular
According to Merriam-Webster, crepuscular means: of, relating to, or resembling twilight, eg: crepuscular light occurring or active during twilight, eg: crepusc...
Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (2)
Meditations is a remarkable collection of personal reflections by the Stoic Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who reigned from 161 to 180 AD. Quote: … that the lo...
Word of the Day: Pellucid
According to Merriam-Webster, pellucid means: admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion, eg: a pellucid stream reflecting light evenly ...