Weekly Vocab #2.1.26 (repost #1)

Last posted: October 11th, 2003

> From: Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
>
> 1. inspiration
> Whither the inspiration?
>
> 2. heaven
> If I go up to the heavens, it is absent.
>
> 3. pit
> If I descend into a pit, it is not there.
>
> 4. wing
> If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea...
>
> 5. to guide
> even there I search for my muse to guide me.
>
> 6. nothing
> I find nothing in its place.
>
> 7. creativity
> My creativity fails me, and my inventiveness does not last.
>
> 8. miserable
> I am become a miserable creature to behold, without originality, without
> thought.
>
> 9. to succeed
> I determine to succeed alone, without my muse's control.
>
> 10. beside
> Achieving all I reach for alone, I see she has been beside me the whole time.
>
> ~wright
Bonus Vocab from WordNet:
This is randomly selected automatically, so in case it offends you
or you disagree, please either ignore or be inspired to make up
different words and/or phrases:

  - Little Missouri, n.
    a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and
    South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota

  - rebury, v.
    bury again; "After the king's body had been exhumed and tested to traces of
    poison, it was reburied in the same spot"

Fiant verba!

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