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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #8 – Converse
Converse v., i. 1. to labor in such a way as to make a livelihood out of what, under conventional circumstances, would be a leisure activity. 2. you don’t know, or you don’t say what that you know, or something aligned with a strong sense of sometimes, something inextricable from experience itself, intrudes upon and […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #7 – O’clock
O’clock adv. 1. of, by, or according to an “old-timey” feeling. Ex. A Sunday’s supper, chiming o’clock. 2. reminiscent of the limited dimensionality upon which the use of objects depends, that liminally studded flatness that shines like a knife’s molybdenum flat. 3. specifying “why?”, “what for?”, “which is which?”, or inquiry into any state of […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #6 – Dark
Dark v., intrans. 1. To utter a loud, harsh cry after filling one’s lungs with reflected moonlight, the panic of moth wings, or some similarly poetic (i.e., identified with the penumbral) material. Ex. What if God should dark? 2. To expectorate milkily. Ex. The drunkards dark. 3. To expire in manic convulsions, with one’s laughter, […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #5 – Submission
Submission n. Euphemistically, a “procurer” or agent employed exclusively for the currying of goodwill and / or renumeration. Said agent is only awarded the status of a submission should he or (infrequently) she be successful at his or her task, appellation thus being retrospective and never a matter of direct address. I.e., the submission is […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #4 - Touch
Touch 1. adv. At a great distance. As if by magic. As in, “I communicated touch, and it was never enough.” As in, “Our technology operates touch.” 2. adj. Realer-than-real. Like talking to someone you love when you both have severe headaches. As in, “The last five years have been inexplicably touch for me. Like, […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #3 - Write
Write 1. v. To make visible; to call into being. As in, “I would have been older than you, but you were written first.” As in, “I would have been here on time, but amphetamines were written into my bloodstream, and everything was too beautiful to be wasted in disarray.” As in, “I’ve written desperation […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #2 - Community
Community 1. n. A clean, white lasso. It has red strips at one end, circumscribing the cylinder of knit, marked like a talisman. As in, “You’re thirsty because you’re afraid of your neighbors, and you grew up rich but your parents never let on.” As in, “The thin thing swinging above your head, or the […]
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Definitions to words in danger of falling out of the vocabulary #1 - Snide
Snide 1. adj. It latches onto nouns like butter latches tinily onto the pitted face of toast. As in, “Television is snide, because it better hides the difficulties of living.” As in, “I was sincere, but my cheeks got too red to control that other person’s head with the palms of my hands—the fur on […]