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HIDEBOUND

pronounced HAHYD-bound

adjective

narrow-minded and stubborn

1559, from hide "cattle skin" + past tense of bind. Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of "restricted by narrow attitudes" is first recorded 1603.

They were class-bound, hidebound and incapable of expressing their emotions
-- Jeremy Paxman, The English

I'd rather be...

henri toulouse-lautrec

oh henry....

bILLY Collins

nice, nice, very nice

Oh, the sleeping drunkard
Up in Central Park,
And a lion-hunter
In the jungle dark,
And a Chinese dentist,
and a British queen-
All fit together
in the same machine.
Nice, nice, very nice;
Nice, nice, very nice-
So many different people
In the same device.

-Vonnegut Jr.

for instance

the world is quite the blueberry today. sound the horns.

- Fernanda Valenzuela from San Francisco

Ferry Prince

You are a crook and a lover,
waiting by the window for Jesus.
There is a woman here, crossed
to Brooklyn by ferry. Be good
to her. Talk little of ghosts and
the mention of stale minds; we can
find what no man has looked for.
The opinion is, I would like to be what
you deem me. Deep waters.
She is the first to ask more of you,
the first not to leave.
Cramped in a pigeon hole, sit tight.

a certain weariness

I’m tired of the harsh sea
and of the mysterious earth,
I’m tired of chickens,
We never know what they think
and they look at us with dry eyes,
As though we’re unimportant

Pablo Neruda

Cindy Tells Me

Cindy Sherman
Film Stills



The true self as a mirror of others.

Time

Our ability to measure and apportion time affords us an almost endless source of comfort.

"Synchronize watches at oh six hundred," says the infantry captian, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds a respite from fear in the act of bringing two tiny pointers into jeweled alignment while tons of heavy artillery go fluttering overhead: the prosaic, civilian-looking dial of the watch has restored, however briefly, an illusion of personal control. Good, it counsels, looking tidily up from the hairs and veins of each terribly vulnerable wrist; fine: so far, everything's happening right on time.

"I'm afraid I'm booked solid through the end of the month," says the executive, voluptuously nesting the phone at his cheek as he thumbs the leaves of his appointment calendar, and his month and eyes betray a sense of deep security. The crisp, plentiful, day-sized pages before him prove that nothing unforeseen, no calamity of chance or fate can overtake him between now and the end of the month. Ruin and pestilence have been held at bay, and death itself will have to wait; he is booked solid.

- Richard Yates

Ugliness II

Your good looks will be gone someday. It might be on a Monday, you look in the mirror, your eyes are pulling down, your lips just slits on your face, you cheeks puffy as a gorilla on feeding day. And you feel sorry. Sorry for those times you drugged yourself like a beached whale, sorry for the tenderness, and all those silly faces you vowed to see again, and you didn't. You wished you saw them with your good looks. But now you destined for basements, and nighttime and piano music. You need much to stay breathing. To stay loving is another matter all together. It's a time that comes upon us; we'll know it's time to leave. I'll say I'm going to France, and you to Canada. There's a language there; there it's calm.

Words at their Best

Erstwhile -

former (adjective)

also used as an adverb, formerly

"Before I move, I will tell off my erstwhile friends!"

Created in 1569 from Middle English erst "soonest, earliest" + while.