tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post6842502262403085533..comments2023-12-06T00:48:23.734-08:00Comments on Daily Writing Practice: Wednesday February 5th, 2014Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-34021573811732268532014-02-08T00:18:09.997-08:002014-02-08T00:18:09.997-08:00Greg - eh, I suppose unofficial was the wrong word...Greg - eh, I suppose unofficial was the wrong word. I just wanted to say something in case I didn't get to individual comments for a while... which has been known to happen recently :P<br /><br />I'm trying to get myself organized to edit Lessons, so maybe that was part of it. Either way, thanks!<br /><br />Lord a'mighty, I do enjoy your definitions. And this one leaves me wanting to tell a story or two taking place in one of those mountain passes...Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-75251779994966909102014-02-06T01:24:04.202-08:002014-02-06T01:24:04.202-08:00Surely, as the blog owner, your welcome is the off...Surely, as the blog owner, your welcome is the official one? But wow, that's a good number of haikus yesterday! <br />Your weather sounds nice; I've barely seen frost on the ground this winter, though at least it's rained, that's been quite cheering :)<br />That's quite a claustrophobic little piece this morning -- have you been reviewing Lessons in the Dust lately, by any chance? You got some excellent little details in there, and the punchline delivers a nice kick.<br /><br /><b>The collapse</b><br /><b>Collapse,</b> <i>n. dangerous</i>. From the Spanish, <i>col</i> meaning a passage and the Latin <i>lapsus</i> meaning to forget. This is one of those words invented by some insufficiently fastidious writer who threw letters at a page and hoped that enough stuck to make some kind of sense (<i>q.v. Dickens, Austen, Woolf, etc.</i>) to describe an unusual phenomenon found in the Panamian foothills, where there are several mountain passes where, for short distances along them, gravity forgets to work. Unwary travellers stepping into those regions find themselves floating slowly upwards, and if they don't grab on to something quickly and haul themselves back down to earth, they float away until they die of cold in the upper atmosphere and the wind pushes them back into the effects of gravity where they fall and shatter into millions of bloody pieces.<br /><i>Ahem</i>. The noun is also used to describe the precipitate fall.<br />Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08503319830584828982noreply@blogger.com