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[rhyll]

i am pleased with my days. i am pleased with a few hours of greek last night, and a few hours of fiction-writing the night before that. with sleeping a reasonable amount, because getting up seems like a good idea these days. with knitting and cooking and knowing not to download microsoft's latest silly 'update'. i am pleased that strangers on the internet have recorded whitman's poems, and i will listen to them later. that i am inching my way forward on my thesis. that a young lady from america went to the trouble of sending me a book of haiku by women, which is exactly what i have been wanting for a long time. that there are websites about greek verbs. that i will eat dinner at a friend's house this weekend. that there is music to carry me through the day.

sometimes it seems almost impossible for the world to have so many small pleasures.

i want a word that means that feeling you get wriggling your toes in the warm sand or the grass.

i want the first sentence of my first chapter to be "We need more words for joy," and i think i might manage it.

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[boxer-the-horse.livejournal.com]

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My favourite word is still 'hope'. 'Joyful hope' is quite wonderful. I like the idea of being 'drunk with hope' or 'drunk with joy' which the librettest of the Ode to Joy beautifully captured with 'feuertrunken (drunk on fire)'. I would like to learn to speak a particularly archaic and poetic version of German so that when I go there people will think I'm delightfully odd.

"i want a word that means that feeling you get wriggling your toes in the warm sand or the grass."

One of the reasons we make music.


We need more words for love, hope and joy.