Tuesday, March 22, 2011

What Does Anything Mean? Basically


A few words that have crossed my path lately, all simultaneously positive/negative, romantic/depressing, thrilling/mundane.

Voluptuary - a person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist

Wistful - pensively sad or melancholy OR full of wishful yearning (I strongly prefer the latter)

Anachronistic - one that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time

2 comments:

a new animal said...

ouroboros - a circular symbol of a snake or dragon devouring its tail, standing for infinity or wholeness

Jason said...

Yeah, I just discovered that too - the opposite of a phoenix! Color me intrigued