Saturday 8 January 2011

Fuscoferuginous

Fancy Tickling

knismesis — light tickling
gargalesis — heavy tickling
gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling

The Smell Of Rain On Dry Ground

Iconicity

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian —
pertaining to extremely long words

Psithurism

Interfenestration

Metaphors

Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts,
then you are in trouble.
— Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor
for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
— Joseph Campbell

Sole Parent

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
— Æschylus