A Journal of Experiential Holiness and Snack Bar.
Examination, interpretation, appreciation.
TO AN AMATEUR SKYWATCHER (in the original sense of that first word), the beginning of the month is quite special; it’s when the new issue of Astronomy arrives. Among that magazine’s many excellent features and fixtures is “Ask Astro,” where experts answer readers’ questions. Here is something from the May 2023 “Ask Astro” that — well, just look:
– Definition: adj.; chiefly British chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged.
– Used in a sentence: Our political and cultural landscapes have become shambolic as all get-out.
– Why: Because we need a more polite (and adjectival) descriptor than… those in current usage.
– Definition: (French) n. person with whom or at whose expense one dines
– Used in a sentence: My father is a well-known and gracious amphitryon.
– Why: Aside from its capitalized Greek origin (Amphitryon was, according to Sophocles, a king of Thebes and companion to Heracles), famed 18th-century gastronome J.A. Brillat-Savarin is wholly enamored of its use in his seminal Physiology of Taste wherein it is synonymous with “host.” (If you’re going to steal, steal from the greats. Especially if they stole it first.)
Some people use the word ‘God’ the way white supremacists use the word ‘patriot.'”
— me
– Definition: v., archaic used to indicate that one believes something is probable.
– Used in a sentence: I daresay we need to get out the vote this November, or all will be lost.
– Why: You could always and instead use the more commonplace “suppose,” I suppose, but why be common? Flex those archaisms and focus your listeners’ attention!
IF YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
— Albert Einstein
EVERYTHING IS EASY — IN HINDSIGHT. Continue reading “Pithyism #20-20”
THE AX EXISTED FOR 1.4 million years before anyone thought to put a handle on it.”
— James Williams
LOVE adv. A DEDICATED SERIES OF related kindnesses and decisions.
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT ‘bizarre’ means anymore.”
— Anthony Bourdain
NOT WITH A BANG BUT a failed vote.
If you can take the song out and it doesn’t leave a hole, then the song’s not necessary.”
— Stephen Sondheim, a”h
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