Comments on: A Sobering Thought

By: Smokering

Smokering — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:16:14 +0000

Well, I’m glad to see my readers aren’t a total dead loss. :p It’s an amazing book, isn’t it?

By: Deb

Deb — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:36:34 +0000

NO. Surely that is not possible???? That is one of the books I required last year as 9th grade You Must Read This To Continue Homeschooling literature. I have the vapors.

By: smokering

smokering — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:18:55 +0000

Interesting.

I have two grandmothers, but one is distinctly more saleable than the other. It happens that way with grandmothers sometimes.

By: AprilElf

AprilElf — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:37:27 +0000

To be honest, I don’t even know myself. It was just an observation, really, devoid of tone.

By: Smokering

Smokering — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:43:00 +0000

Betty: It confounds me also. Let me know if you achieve any further insights on the subj; Google is unwontedly reticent. Although I do like the Urban Dictionary definition:

ones posterity, or buttocks

AprilElf: It’s so hard to convey tone over the Internet, isn’t it… should I be relieved for her sake or sorry for yours?

By: Betty Scandretti

Betty Scandretti — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:05:38 +0000

It’s “diasticutis”. Fascinating. I can’t quite figure out the etymology, however — diastasis rectus is the splitting of the rectus abdominis during pregnancy, and diastole is the lengthening of a short syllable, or the expansion of the chambers of the heart as they fill. Both sound a little offensive, but then, I guess so… Fascinating.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:50:09 +0000

What kind of person would buy a grandmother?

I had never even heard of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” let alone read it.

By: AprilElf

AprilElf — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:07:09 +0000

I don’t have a grandmother left to sell.

By: smokering

smokering — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:05:50 +0000

Philistine. It is sublime. In my top five favourite books, it varies between a cozy two and three. My top five are pretty fluid at the best of times, position-wise. Sometimes if I’ve recently re-read The Grapes of Wrath, Their Eyes Were Watching God might be pushed down to a four; but even that is not a norful place to be. Better to reign in hell - no, hang on, the other thing. Anyhoo. It has rabies in it: also the phrase “royal diasticutus”, meaning bottom, which I have been unable to find anywhere else in the world. As in “Go to the libe, find a copy of the book and sit you down on your royal diasticutus, stirring not until you’ve read it from cover to cover”.

By: Betty Scandretti

Betty Scandretti — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:59:36 +0000

I haven’t read it, though I could probably piece most of it together from the fragments of your sycophantic ramblings on the subject, much like the New Testament from the early church fathers. Is it good?

:sits back: