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jdellis commented on the word velleities
very small pleasures. I came across the word in TS Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady":
"--And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated violins
Mingled with remote regrets
And begins."
April 3, 2009