lostsplendor:

cal·li·pyg·i·an [kal-uh-pij-ee-uhn] Adjective: Having well-shaped buttocks

cal·li·py·gous  [kal-uh-pahy-guhs]: possessing a well-shaped buttocks

Origin:  1640–50;  < Greek kallipýg ( os ) with beautiful buttocks; referringto a statue of Aphrodite ( kalli- calli-  + pyg ( ḗ ) rump + -os  adj.suffix) + -ian 

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4:06 pm  •  30 August 2012  •  414 notes

sav3mys0ul:

other-wordly: pronunciation | ‘vA-ga-rE

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11:30 am  •  17 August 2012  •  4,760 notes

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. a flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room, idly locked in the middle of some group conversation, their eyes glinting with vulnerability, or quiet anticipation, or cosmic boredom—as if you could see backstage through a gap in the curtains, watching stagehands holding their ropes at the ready, actors in costume mouthing their lines, fragments of bizarre sets waiting for some other production.

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3:33 pm  •  16 August 2012  •  4,236 notes

motleyglue:

This is a Literal Epidemic.

It’s is literally everywhere, in literally every sentence I hear.

As if we’re in constant state of amazement and wonder at the actuality of our lives.

“No really, I’m not being metaphorical or figurative;” we say, “there is no exaggeration or inaccuracy in what I am about to tell you, so pay attention now, this is real:”  

“I was literally, like, I dunno.”

…

“I literally just got off the train.”

…

“He literally had his cock out.”

…

It is surely symptomatic of our detachment from concrete, face to face reality; our state of our distraction and lack of presence. On some level, we all know we are concerned much of the time with surface and gloss, bouncing from pixel to pixel, so that we have to reinforce the actuality of concrete, “IRL”, genuine experience to distinguish it - another facet of the “authentic” premium. 

(Is it the equivalent of “for real” in the U.S., I wonder? Um…”For real…Yo?”)

Anyway, like “ironic” before it, I think we risk wearing the word out. Not literally of course, that’s a metaphor… but how can the concept survive without a word to live in? Before you know it we could have no idea what’s real and what’s not at all. Cats and dogs; mass hysteria.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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10:40 am  •  12 August 2012  •  17 notes

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”

— Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (via onehundreddollars)

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7:04 pm  •  30 July 2012  •  1,291 notes

thebodyasconduit:

Jack Spicer

from his collection

My Vocabulary Did This to Me

*

I mean, this:

Sex is an ache of the mouth […]

And love is emptiness of ear.

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10:03 am  •  30 July 2012  •  50 notes

“… there are plenty of hard words in there.’Brillig’ means four o’ clock in the afternoon - the time when you begin broiling things for dinner…. ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimely’. ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active’. You see it’s like a portmanteau word - there are two meanings packed into one word… ‘toves’ are something like badgers - they’re something like lizards - and they’re something like corkscrews… also, they make their nests under sundials - also they live on cheese… To ‘gyre’ is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To ‘gimble’ is to make holes like a gimlet… ‘mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau for you). And a ‘borogrove’ is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round - something like a live mop… a ‘rath’ is a sort of green pig: but ‘mome’ I’m not certain about. I think it’s short for ‘from home’ - meaning that they’d lost their way, you know… ‘outgribing’ is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.”

— Humpty Dumpty explaining The Jabberwocky, in Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll. (via o-delaisse)

5:40 am  •  2 July 2012  •  7 notes

resoulution:

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2:54 pm  •  27 June 2012  •  11,846 notes

theantidote:

pronunciation | \yO-kO me-shE\

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1:32 pm  •  18 June 2012  •  1,504 notes

N I G H T

adj.

1. howling
vi. ululate
n. ululation

(Source: sylvanaland, via strangerains)

3:47 am  •  11 June 2012  •  9 notes