{"id":23364,"date":"2020-03-25T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=23364"},"modified":"2020-03-25T07:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:17:41","slug":"distracting-if-useless-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=23364","title":{"rendered":"Distracting, if Useless Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For fear that you’ll all desert me if I don’t loosen up, here is a mid-week respite before I return to issues of philosophy-in-the-times-of-a-pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, Merriam Webster delivered perfect distraction, offering a thread of words that I was mostly unfamiliar with, in this, my second language. Beautiful, obscure, and often quite useless words. Let’s see if they can be illustrated with the appropriate visuals, describing a typical Heuer Wednesday morning in the time of crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Matutinal<\/em><\/strong> ( of, relating to, or occurring in the morning) preoccupation, other than leaving exercise to others,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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is to ignore my Deipnosophist<\/strong> (a person skilled in table talk) Beloved <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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because he distracts me from putting the finishing touches on all things Jentacular<\/strong> (pertaining to breakfast.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and should not see me Catillate<\/strong> (to licke dishes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Come on. You didn’t expect a photo for that, did you?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Scripturien<\/strong>t (having a strong urge to write) nature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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later has me send him a text, since he still can’t decipher my Cacography<\/strong> (bad handwriting) on a piece of paper. (38 years and counting…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My message: I’ll be Solivagant<\/strong> (rambling alone, marked by solitary wandering) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And keep the 6 feet social distance, if need be, by means of being Filipendulous<\/strong> (suspended by or strung upon a thread.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not. I might be climbing the walls, but I will not be climbing rocks, knowing it would be a B\u00eatise<\/strong> (an act of foolishness or stupidity.) No solitary ramblings either, as it turns out, still too much under the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then again….. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who knows, I might be fit again tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here are some more words<\/a> set to music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For REAL storytelling, listen to this<\/a>. Your soul will get a good airing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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