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• pekkok commented on the word valeric

  An expression of a valeric sense of a word, as described by Paul Valéry (using the dangerous word time as his example):

  I stop the word Time in its flight. This word was utterly limpid, precise, honest, and faithful in its service as long as it was part of a remark and was uttered by someone who wished to say something. But here it is, isolated, caught on the wing. It takes its revenge. It makes us believe that it has more meanings than uses. It was only a means, and it has become an end, the object of a terrible philosophical desire. It turns into an enigma, an abyss, a torment of thought...

  Paul Valéry: Poetry and Abstract thought. The Art of Poetry, page 55. Bollingen Foundation. New York. 1958.

  June 22, 2009

• pekkok commented on the word farfaller

  Implies a mixture of suicidal daydreams and mediterranean butterflies: "Perhaps by my fall, I will fly... fly far, far away..."

  June 22, 2009