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because prose just isn't enough right now...

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school, where children strove At recess, in the ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

no words of my own, so here are some other words.

So as I was angrily staring at my computer for the five hours it took to download Day Four (gggrrr.... grrrrr.... my cat gave me up at some point and spent most of the time hiding in the garage) the word of the day was

perseverance.

yeah.

and this morning, when I have to go to work so I can sneak out of work to go over to the second preview for the "emily" piece I see today's word(s) of the day. I'm including the etymology and the usage here only as they're sort of appropriate in tangential ways...

Sturm und Drang

 

 

MEANING:

noun: Turmoil; upheaval.

ETYMOLOGY:

From German Sturm und Drang (translated as: storm and stress, literally: storm and urge/yearning), title of the 1776 play about the American Revolution, by dramatist Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752-1831). It was also the name of an 18th century German literary movement characterized by greater expression of emotional unrest.
The name of the Durmstrang Institute, one of the wizarding schools in the Harry Potter series, is a spoonerism of Sturm und Drang.

USAGE:

"After the sturm und drang of Revolutionary Road, director Sam Mendes opted for a looser, lighter story."
Colin Covert; Pregnant Pause With 'Away We Go'; Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jun 12, 2009.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. -Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (1717-1797)