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Sensational Sunrise
Already in this young calendar year, I have become irrationally upset at having missed a sunrise. This dazzling world‘s irreproducible morning display. I voiced my sadness to a colleague later that day, telling her how extraordinary the color had … Continue reading
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Tagged grief, here comes the sun, sunrise, synesthesia, writer's block
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The Best Seats in the House
At sunset the best seats in the house (metaphorically speaking) turned out to occupy a waterfront graveyard. This snippet of synesthesia—the musical sunset–brought to mind the story of death (lower case “d” intended; Saramago fans will understand) and the cellist. … Continue reading
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Tagged Catacombs, cellist, cemetery, colonial burial grounds, death, Death With Interruptions, George MacDonald, graveyard, Islington Creek, Jean Paul Sartre, Jose Saramago, metro tickets, Montparnasse, murder, Paris, Portsmouth history, Simone de Beauvoire, sunset, synesthesia, The Ballad of Frenchman's Lane
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A Surprising Sea of Synesthesia
Old Uzbek had words for dozens of varieties of crying–including my personal favorite, a word for crying while making the sound hay, hay. I think English needs more words for “surprise”–perhaps for the variety of surprise that freezes one in … Continue reading
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Tagged grief, health, language, medicine, surprise, synesthesia, unpleasant surprises, zero at the bone
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