Literary... dohickies...

[elaby]

And now for another session of elaby Learned Something Neat in British Lit and Has to Share.

Apostrophe - the act of addressing something or someone that is not (or could not be) possibly listening.

Like talking to the moon.

Anagnoresis - the moment of realization.

Jace had one of these last night *grins*

Possibly related to the BFO, from my Young Women's Leadership Conference... Blinding Flash of the Obvious.

AND...
for your reading enjoyment, some of the best fight dialogue I've ever
read, courtesy of Corwin of Amber. Watch as with deftness and finesse,
Corwin makes his opponents attempts at eloquent trash-talk fall flat...

Corwin: Who are you?

Evil Horned Being's Minion: Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver.

Corwin: Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it. And my cirrhosis would give you indigestion. Go away.

*clip*

Minion: Who are you?

Corwin: None of your business, Charlie. Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home--

*clip, in which Corwin cuts Minion and Minion's wounds flame up*

Minion:
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones! I will dry them and
work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play
upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!

Corwin: You burn prettily.

I
just love Corwin. I also liked the part where, back in the "real" world
after hundreds of years on the human Earth, he goes "That ratfink!" and
the guy he's with is like "... O.o wha?" Ratfink is a word I need to
have Flynn use.