by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 19, 2021 | [Definitions to] Words in Danger
n.1. The rope in your chest that time pulls so slowly it tickles on the way out.2. That water always flows downhill until it’s heat.3. Any automaton. The mechanism creaks along, its parts soft. Metal strips must be procured, their conductivity rounded, their corners... by anniebellequattlebaum | Aug 27, 2021 | [Definitions to] Words in Danger
v., aux 1. You get it; your arms, even, know the dance. It’s so ingrained that the hoop they form looks good even in the shadow-scraped stucco walls of a southern dwelling. You dance like electrons pulled through the conduits of addiction—a horrible and boring... by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 24, 2021 | [Definitions to] Words in Danger
v., trans.1. To share; to offer a helping of something not necessarily desired because it is generallyaccepted to be of questionable if not limited utility or value.2. To consume any delicacy unknowingly or in an unfeeling, disinterested manner. When... by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 19, 2021 | [Definitions to] Words in Danger
n. Let’s talk baseball. Let’s talk the atomics of the game. Let’s talk the game itself, outside theboundaries of its rules: the spectatorship following whitely, the fields shit-green, shit-verdant,the lines of its reaches and conservations. Baseball is for talking,... by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 15, 2021 | [Definitions to] Words in Danger
v. To aspire to a conventional sort of virtuosity.To fancify one’s language and / or conversation, and in the service of one’s own dickishness.To cloak with a contronym.To troll while pretending to prophesy, or vice versa. This is why we recommend the use of aPO box... by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 10, 2021 | [Definitions to] Words in Danger
adj.1. There is and must be a likeness at the heart of unlikeness, that is, to be like or comparable inone’s uniqueness; unlikeness as a measurable matter of degree rather than kind. You hear awoman’s voice and you imagine you can imagine her body from that voice....
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