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luka

luka

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All is lithogenesis—or lochia,
Carpolite fruit of the forbidden tree,
Stones blacker than any in the Caaba,
Cream-coloured caen-stone, chatoyant pieces,
Celadon and corbeau, bistre and beige,
Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
Making mere faculae of the sun and moon,
I study you glout and gloss, but have
No cadrans to adjust you with, and turn again
From optik to haptik and like a blind man run
My fingers over you, arris by arris, burr by burr,
Slickensides, truité, rugas, foveoles,
Bringing my aesthesis in vain to bear,
An angle-titch to all your corrugations and coigns,
Hatched foraminous cavo-rilievo of the world,
Deictic, fiducial stones. Chiliad by chiliad
What bricole piled you here, stupendous cairn?
What artist poses the Earth écorché thus,
Pillar of creation engouled in me?
What eburnation augments you with men’s bones,
Every energumen an Endymion yet?
All the other stones are in this haecceity it seems,
But where is the Christophanic rock that moved?
What Cabirian song from this catasta comes?
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On a Raised Beach

All is lithogenesis—or lochia, Carpolite fruit of the forbidden tree, Stones blacker than any in the Caaba, Cream-coloured caen-stone, chatoyant pieces, Celadon and corbeau, bistre and beige, Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, Making mere faculae of the sun and moon, I study you glout and…
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luka

luka

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do you like big words or do they annoy you? do you look them up when you come across them?
 
luka

luka

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lithogenesis (uncountable)


  1. (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
  2. (pathology) The formation of calculi (stony concretions).
Lochia is the vaginal discharge you have after giving birth. It contains a mix of blood, mucus and uterine tissue. It has a stale, musty odor like menstrual period discharge and can last several weeks. Lochia is heavy at first but gradually subsides to a lighter flow until it goes away. This can last for a few weeks.
Carpolite may refer to:


  • Carpolite in paleontology refers to a fossilized fruit, nut, or seed
  • Carpolite in construction for a limestone aggregate or crushed stone

chatoyant​

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adjective​


cha·toy·ant shə-ˈtȯi-ənt




Synonyms of chatoyant

: having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light

Celadon (/ˈsɛlədɒn/) is a term for pottery denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware or "green ware" (the term specialists now tend to use),[1] and a type of transparent glaze, often with small cracks, that was first used on greenware, but later used on other porcelains. Celadon originated in China, though the term is purely European, and notable kilns such as the Longquan kiln in Zhejiang province are renowned for their celadon glazes.
 
luka

luka

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Celadon (color), a pale, sea-green pigment

Bistre is a pigment made from soot. Historically, beechwood was burned to produce the soot, which was boiled and diluted with water. Many Old Masters used bistre as the ink for their wash paintings. Bistre's appearance is generally of a dark grayish brown, with a yellowish cast

Glaucous is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull, glaucous-winged gull, glaucous macaw, and glaucous tanager.

enfouldered in British English​


(ɛnˈfəʊldəd IPA Pronunciation Guide )

adjective obsolete
charged with lightning
 
hmg

hmg

Victory lap
luka said:
do you like big words or do they annoy you? do you look them up when you come across them?
Click to expand...

It's fun to work them out. Spods spend their time between ages 6 and 13 literally reading dictionaries. The rest of their time, poring over maps.
 
luka

luka

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cyathiform​


adjective​


cy·ath·i·form
sīˈathəˌfȯrm




: shaped like a cup

A facula, Latin for "little torch", is literally a "bright spot". The term has several common technical uses. It is used in planetary nomenclature for naming certain surface features of planets and moons, and is also a type of surface phenomenon on the Sun's photosphere

Definition of 'glout'
1. a frown or scowl. verb (intransitive) 2. to look sullen.

cadrans in British English​


(ˈkædrənz IPA Pronunciation Guide )

noun
an instrument which measures the angles of gems and is used during the cutting process


Arris​



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arris
In architecture, an arris is the sharp edge formed by the intersection of two surfaces, such as the corner of a masonry unit; the edge of a timber in timber ...

In geology, a slickenside is a smoothly polished surface caused by frictional movement between rocks along a fault. This surface is typically striated with linear features, called slickenlines, in the direction of movement.
 
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Corpsey

Corpsey

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I suppose there's a big store of words in my brain somewhere but I can't access most of them

But that's all down to practice I guess?
 
line b

line b

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Ya I feel like my vocab rotates with chunks of time. I cannot access all of it, for speaking, at once
 
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