Louises has looked up 845 words, created 5 lists, listed 529 words, written 314 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 46 words.
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Well I'm nearly at the end of the book so my obsession will be finite. Can't say which is more fun, the book or wordnik! Your suggestion will enable an extension to my compulsion.
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Hi Louises - I'm really enjoying your excellent citations from The Last Werewolf. Perhaps you should gather them together in a dedicated list? If you don't, then I might! Keep them coming.
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Ah, good! Wordnik is a wonderful place, or was once and shall be once we all get used to the changes, I hope. I took some time off to let things settle here, but I knew I'd be back.
I'd looked at The Last Werewolf before (my other addiction is Goodreads) but hadn't really been interested. Your quotes have changed my mind. -
Your quotes from this book made me interested in checking it out, but I wonder if you mean The Last Werewolf, as that is the only title I can find with a similar name by that author.
Louises commented on the word quotidian
'We know that we abide with quarks and constellations in a reality unknowable by us in a degree, we will never be able to calculate but reality all the same, the stuff and the matrix of our supposedly qotidian existence'. The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 20, 2013
Louises commented on the word ontogeny
'For Freud, self-alienation is a consequence of human ontogeny’. The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 20, 2013
Louises commented on the word deracination
'They are not the consequences of deracination, since the Freudian self is at ease nowhere and has no kindred beyond father and mother'. The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 20, 2013
Louises commented on the word chthonic
'The question of the chthonic spirit has occupied me ever since I began to delve into the world of alchemy’. Jung qoted in The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 20, 2013
Louises commented on the word hymenopteran
'Certain qualities of humankind that are unique to us, and not to be accounted for by analogies between ourselves and the humenopteran?' The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 20, 2013
Louises commented on the word imprimatur
'The wish to live on in one's descendants is not unusual, even if the words in which it is expressed have lacked imprimatur.' The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 20, 2013
Louises commented on the word exculpation
'This is a high price to pay for exculpation, in its way the ultimate statement of the modernist impulse to discredit the witness of the mind'. The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word atavistic
'That tone of certainty persists, an atavistic trait that defies the evolution of its notional subject.' The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 17, 2013
Louises commented on the word ontogeny
'This starlit world is still the world, presumably, and every part of it, including humankind, is unchanged in its nature still embodying the history that is also its ontogeny. The Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson 2010.
Apr 16, 2013
Louises commented on the word teleological
"Withoutmfirst having a thorough understanding of the political economy of the past, any act of imagination based on contemporary feelings, values and moral convictions will be teleologically silly and misleading." Noel Pearson quoted in Tim Rowse's "Rethinking Social Justice" p. 143
Mar 31, 2013
Louises commented on the word invigilate
"The Act should empower the minister to invigilate each council's procedures" p.72 Rethinking Social Justice by Tim Rowse.
Mar 27, 2013
Louises commented on the word depredator
'The safety of the ceremonial sites still in present-day aboriginal use depends solely upon the ignorance of white Australian depredators of their very existence.' From Strehlow quoted in Tim Rowse's 'Rethinking Social Justice' 2012 p.54
Mar 27, 2013
Louises commented on the word anomic
"Aborigines traditionally enjoyed a condition of community that complex European societies must strive to match lest they sinkfurther into anomic egoism." Quoting AP Elkin in Tim Rowses: Rethinking Social Justice 2012 p.41
Mar 27, 2013
Louises commented on the word needments
What Chaucer has summed up for all time as 'a bag of needments'. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 23, 2013
Louises commented on the word efflorescence
The rosy efflorescence of the peonies floated above the table. Cld Comfort Farm.
Feb 23, 2013
Louises commented on the word reft
She looked illumined and transfigured and reft out of herself and all the rest of it. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 23, 2013
Louises commented on the word beard
She would beard Judith as soon as she got home. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 23, 2013
Louises commented on the word batrachian
Window-panes fogged by her slow batrachian breath. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 23, 2013
Louises commented on the word viridian
Her long coat was of viridian velvet. Cold comfort farm.
Feb 23, 2013
Louises commented on the word vulpine
A slow secret smile swept into Harkaway,s face. It was wolfish, ursine, vulpine. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 22, 2013
Louises commented on the word ursine
A slow secret smile swept into Harkaway,s face. It was wolfish, ursine, vulpine. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 22, 2013
Louises commented on the word argot
Flora was learning how to translate the Starkadder argot. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 22, 2013
Louises commented on the word fustian
He was encased in black fustian which made his legs and arms look likemdrain pipes. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 21, 2013
Louises commented on the word manger
Boldly enter the kitchen where the family sat at the manger. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 21, 2013
Louises commented on the word furl
Furling a large umbrella. ColdComfort Farm.
Feb 21, 2013
Louises commented on the word wain
When the sukebind weighs heavily on the wains. cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word sukebind
When the sukebind is weighing heavy on the wains. Cold comfort farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word middock
Every middock you eat is paid for with our sweat. cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word prodigal
Find out if the old lady approved of this prodigal arrangement
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word mollocking
He's off a-mollocking. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word farren
The sows are farren. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word capsy
A capsy wennett. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word doithering
Ye doithering old fool of a man. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word cowdling
Bite the hand that fed ythee as a cowdling. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word discomposed
Her spirits were somewhat discomposed. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word mommet
Did I cowdle thee as a mommet. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word lanthorn
He lit the the lanthorn hanging on the side of the buggy. Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 19, 2013
Louises commented on the word hoot-pieces
"He untied the beasts from their hoot-pieces". Cold Comfort Farm
Feb 18, 2013
Louises commented on the word cowdling
My Pharisee...my cowdling. Cold Comfort Farm
Feb 18, 2013
Louises commented on the word snoot
Pruning-snoot and reaping hook. Cold Comfort Farm
Feb 18, 2013
Louises commented on the word kith
"Amos liked to have his kith about him". Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm
Feb 18, 2013
Louises commented on the word snood
Looking moodily down into the heaving contents of the snood. Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm. Yet again none the wiser - porridge in a snnod?
Feb 18, 2013
Louises commented on the word scranlet
"Watching the crooked passage of the scranlet through the yeasty earth." Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. Still none the wiser!
Feb 17, 2013
Louises commented on the word mullion
"This sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullionsof Cold Comfort Farm"
Feb 17, 2013
Louises commented on the word flapdoodle
"Who are not really sure if the sentence is Literature or whether it is just sheer flapdoodle. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 15, 2013
Louises commented on the word loafing
"Loafing for the soul". Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 15, 2013
Louises commented on the word lambency
"First burned in my mind with pure lambency ten years ago". Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm.
Feb 15, 2013
Louises commented on the word teazle
"Adam laughed: a strange sound like the whickering snicker of a teazle in anger". Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort farm (and I still don't know what whickering means).
Feb 15, 2013
Louises commented on the word snicker
"Adam laughed: a strange sound like the whickering snicker of a teazle in anger". Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort farm (and I still don't know what whickering means).
Feb 15, 2013
Louises commented on the word whickering
"Adam laughed: a strange sound like the whickering snicker of a teazle in anger". Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort farm (and I still don't know what whickering means).
Feb 15, 2013