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LEE HOLLETT, ALS PATIENT: My right leg was kind of spasmic and very weak.
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Nor you, Yosemite – nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
walt whitman | election day, november, 1884 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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But are these deluges & droughts, whirlwinds & glaciations no more than overextended metaphors of some kind of suicidal self-hate, the expressions of deep internal conflicts resolvable only in a series of spasmic collisions with an ever yielding external reality?
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But are these deluges & droughts, whirlwinds & glaciations no more than overextended metaphors of some kind of suicidal self-hate, the expressions of deep internal conflicts resolvable only in a series of spasmic collisions with an ever yielding external reality?
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But are these deluges & droughts, whirlwinds & glaciations no more than overextended metaphors of some kind of suicidal self-hate, the expressions of deep internal conflicts resolvable only in a series of spasmic collisions with an ever yielding external reality?
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But are these deluges & droughts, whirlwinds & glaciations no more than overextended metaphors of some kind of suicidal self-hate, the expressions of deep internal conflicts resolvable only in a series of spasmic collisions with an ever yielding external reality?
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The slender, spasmic, blue-white jetsthe bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders, and their execution, 70
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The slender, spasmic blue-white jets -- the bringing to
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Nor you, Yosemite -- nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
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The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,
elgiad007 commented on the word spasmic
Does anyone know if this is an archaic form of spasmodic? I can't find a definition for it anywhere online.
November 7, 2008
mollusque commented on the word spasmic
According to OED2 it means "spasmodic" or "convulsive", but it's not listed as archaic. Google Books shows lots of recent usages.
November 7, 2008
elgiad007 commented on the word spasmic
Thanks mollusque!
November 7, 2008