Don’t bespawl your screen.
Mat with notebook, originally uploaded by Koosama.
My favorite word at the moment: skushno. “Skushno is a Russian word that is difficult to translate. It means more than dreary boredom: a spiritual void that sucks you in like a bague but intensely urgent longing.” (Gregor von Rezzori) As in, “I don’t want to go to work, I have skushno.”
Some English words you don’t encounter on a daily basis:Acnestis — the part of an animal’s back that the animal can’t reach to scratchBespawl — to splatter with salivaDeipnophobia—the fear of dinner partiesKankedort—an awkward situation.Nicholson Baker reviews Reading the OED by Ammon Shea. The author reads the entire Oxford English Dictionary in one go. Now there’s an expedition we’ve trained for.Obituary: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008.
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August 5th, 2008 at 08:18
Solzhenitsyn was a good writer despite that I was not able to finish reading the Gulag Archipelago due to absurd circumstances. I remember buying that book with my first paycheck. Kudos.