9626 Deventures

No

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0800

exclamation: used to give a negative response.

Silence has a sound, and the sound is 'no.' Koh, Harold Hongju

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Squares

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0800

noun: a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles.

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole." Apple Inc.

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Palm

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0800

noun

• an unbranched evergreen tree with a crown of long feathered or fan-shaped leaves, and typically having old leaf scars forming a regular pattern on the trunk.

• the inner surface of the hand between the wrist and fingers.

"To see the world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wildflower

To hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour."

Sir William Blake Richmond

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Gaze

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0800

verb: look steadily and intently, esp. in admiration, surprise, or thought

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Friedrich Nietzsche

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Triangle

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0800

noun: a plane figure with three straight sides and three angles

"Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one." Salman Rushdie

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Narrow

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0800

adjective: (esp. of something that is considerably longer or higher than it is wide) of small width

“A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.” Irish Proverb

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Details

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0800

noun: an individual feature, fact, or item

“Caress the detail, the divine detail” Vladimir Nabokov

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Concentric

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:30:00 -0700

adjective: of or denoting circles, arcs, or other shapes that share the same center, the larger often completely surrounding the smaller.

"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism." Jean Baudrillard

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Animal

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:21:00 -0700

noun: a living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli.

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." Mark Twain

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Branch

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:33:00 -0700

noun: a part of a tree that grows out from the trunk or from a bough.

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” Victor Hugo

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Beach

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:00:00 -0700

noun: a pebbly or sandy shore, esp. by the ocean between high- and low-water marks.

“Everything on the beach has a cool story. You just have to wring its little neck to figure it out.” Curt Ebbesmeyer

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Concert

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:46:00 -0700

noun: a musical performance given in public, typically by several performers or of several separate compositions.

"Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol—pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight." William S. Burroughs

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Above

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:23:00 -0700

preposition: in extended space over and not touching.

“It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions” William Shakespeare

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Tint

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:21:00 -0700

noun: a shade or variety of color.

“When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint” Lewis Carroll

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Natural

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:30:00 -0700

adjective: existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind.

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them” Mark Twain

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Nautical

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:20:00 -0700

adjective: of or concerning sailors or navigation

"Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up." Henry David Thoreau

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Fire

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:30:00 -0700

noun: combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke.

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.” Fred Shero

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Dewy

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:30:00 -0700

adjective: wet with dew.

• (of a person's skin) appearing soft and lustrous.

• youthful and fresh.

"I imagine the earth when I am no more:

Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley.

Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,

Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

Czesław Miłosz from 'And Yet the Books"

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Beast

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:30:00 -0700

noun: an animal, esp. a large or dangerous four-footed one.

"I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression." Dylan Thomas

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Fly

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:29:00 -0700

verb: to move through the air under control.

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly." Neil Gaiman (Fables and Reflections)

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