Writer's Block: Bump In The Night

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What are you afraid of

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Perspicuous and equivocal ambiguity.

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I love definitions. I don't know exactly when it started. Perhaps it was the day that I discovered that the work "Heck" was actually in the dictionary and that it's earliest derivation meaning "hell" wasn't as benign as I had originally thought, carrying the implication that my sister and I had been equivalently saying "like hell!" all growing up even though "bad" words like "poo-poo," "pee-pee," "guts," and "pus." Always seemed much more sinful when uttered in malice or astonishment. (I'll leave that sentance slightly equovical for honesty sake.) Yeah, so now, I'm such a sucker* for definitions (*note: as in, (Am Herit.) def. no 10: meaning one drawn towards, or attracted to). Would you know that I think I have 7 different dictionaries (four strictly in English); three-plus Enghlish handbooks, a synonym finder or thesaurus, and a spell check book? Sadly I'm not very good at phrasing english or understanding what does what

Re: you are a special kind of weird:)

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Exactly. Splitting hairs and swallowing chopsticks. Straining out gnats and choking down camels. I'm as consistent in my use of english as a microwaved cube of butter, simultaneously soft and hard with melted holes like swiss cheese dipped in pudding (if it's okay to use a simile in a metaphore).

Oh, and thank you for the compliment.

Lastly, I will answer: I have many reasons for not riding the bus. I'd really enjoy leaving my answer equivocal, but truthfully, the above mentioned ia thankfully not one of them.

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goodness gracious. Don't you know I don't think about grammar whatsoever during the summer?? My brain hurts...