He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.
There’s always one person who’s kind of drifting, or seeking out the other, without success or conclusion. ... We’ve been examining how you bind yourself to another, how you join, how you meet somebody where they’re at, or impose, or initiate; how we cope with one another, how we cope with the vulnerability of meeting and seeking each other out.
Blake Beckham, “On OneAnother,” 2016
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If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.
Heraclitus, "On the Unexpected," c. 480 BCE
Have you seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and the clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach something? That's like me, I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.
Albert P. Ryder in Richard Flood, "Not About Mel Gibson" from Unmonumental, 2007
Etymologies of the Month (October 2012)
October saw Preparing an Essay on Urban Movement
- Purpose (n): late 13c., from O.Fr. porpos "aim, intention" (12c.), from porposer "to put forth," from por- "forth" (from L. pro- "forth") + O.Fr. poser "to put, place" (see pose).
- Vehicle (n): 1610s, "a medium through which a drug or medicine is administered," also "any means of conveying or transmitting," from Fr. véhicule, from L. vehiculum "means of transport, a vehicle," from vehere "to carry," from PIE *wegh- "to go, transport in a vehicle" (cf. O.E. wegan "to carry;" M.Du. wagen "wagon;" see wagon).
- Dance (n): c.1300, from O.Fr. dancier, perhaps from Low Frankish *dintjan and akin to O.Fris. dintje "tremble, quiver;" Replaced O.E. sealtian, itself a borrowing from L. saltare "to dance," frequentative of salire "to leap" (see salient; "dance" words frequently are derived from words meaning "jump, leap").
- Movement (n): late 14c., from O.Fr. movement "movement, exercise; start, instigation", from L. movere (see move); In the musical sense of "major division of a piece" it is attested from 1776; in the political/social sense, from 1828.
- Event (n): 1570s, from M.Fr. event, from L. eventus "occurrence, accident, event, fortune, fate, lot, issue," from pp. stem of evenire "to come out, happen, result," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + venire "to come" (see venue).
- Day (n): O.E. dæg "day," also "lifetime," from P.Gmc. *dagaz, from PIE *dhegh-; Not considered to be related to L. dies (see diurnal), but rather to Skt. dah "to burn," Lith. dagas "hot season," O.Prus. dagis "summer;" Meaning originally, in English, "the daylight hours;" expanded to mean "the 24-hour period" in late Anglo-Saxon times.
- Companion (n): c.1300, from O.Fr. compagnon "fellow, mate, friend, partner" (12c.), from L.L. companionem, lit. "bread fellow, messmate," from L. com- "with" (see com-) + panis "bread" (see food).
- Manifesto (n): "public declaration," 1640s, from It. manifesto "public declaration explaining past actions and announcing the motive for forthcoming ones," originally "proof," from L. manifestus: "ship's cargo," 1706.
- Lose (v): O.E. losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss," from P.Gmc. *lausa- (cf. O.N. los "the breaking up of an army;" O.E. forleosan "to lose, destroy"), from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate" (cf. Skt. lunati "cuts, cuts off," lavitram "sickle;" Gk. lyein "to loosen, untie, slacken," lysus "a loosening;" L. luere "to loose, release, atone for, expiate").
- Find (v): O.E. findan "come upon, meet with, discover; obtain by search or study" from P.Gmc. *finthanan, originally "to come upon," perhaps from PIE *pent- "to go, pass, path, bridge" (cf. O.H.G. fendeo "pedestrian," Skt. panthah "path, way," Avestan panta "way," Gk. pontos "open sea," L. pons "bridge," O.C.S. poti "path," peta "heel").
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