Hey kids, what did we learn today?

[raybear]

Sometimes I get certain words stuck in my head, and my lips and tongue roll them around, I recite them quietly or out loud or whispered, I try them out, I intentionally mispronounce them, I rearrange them. Then I stop and think about what they mean, why they might have appeared in my brain randomly, what's the code to unlock.* And then I distract myself from the deeper psychological meaning by just researching them as concepts.

Today's example of this is palimpsest

*: This one isn't totally Jungian in its origin or anything -- it's the title of a journal I updated for my freelance project, but every time my eyes glance it among the other titles on the spreadsheet, I get fixated.

Comments

[blacklieswetell.livejournal.com]

I love saying that word out loud. It is in my collection of favorites ^^

[bigfatmama.livejournal.com]

i love that word, i am using it in my thesis to describe the persistence of indigeneity. it's good.