Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Is a fashion magazine supposed to make you feel dumb?
I was reading an old issue of British GQ that I purchased from eBay. It had a cover story on my man Elvis Costello regarding his then new album Brutal Youth, a favorite of mine. So we're humming along and, being a super-fan, these articles tend to all read alike so I'm glossing over well-covered territory. Suddenly, I come to a word I've never heard before in my life: peripatetically. What the hell? He made that up! So I go and look it up. Here are the main definitions according to dictionary.com:
peripatetic-
1. Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot.
2. Peripatetic Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
I'm not even sure the writer was using the word correctly, but hell..it sure did the job. That of making me feel like a retard.
"I'm certain as a lost dog
Pondering a sign post."
-from I Want To Vanish, EC.
I was reading an old issue of British GQ that I purchased from eBay. It had a cover story on my man Elvis Costello regarding his then new album Brutal Youth, a favorite of mine. So we're humming along and, being a super-fan, these articles tend to all read alike so I'm glossing over well-covered territory. Suddenly, I come to a word I've never heard before in my life: peripatetically. What the hell? He made that up! So I go and look it up. Here are the main definitions according to dictionary.com:
peripatetic-
1. Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot.
2. Peripatetic Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
I'm not even sure the writer was using the word correctly, but hell..it sure did the job. That of making me feel like a retard.
"I'm certain as a lost dog
Pondering a sign post."
-from I Want To Vanish, EC.
