Archive :: ‘sound’
May I have the origin please?
con.trived | k
n-tr
vd
circa 13251, from O.Fr. controver2 "to find out, contrive, imagine"
from V.Lat. contropare "to compare"3 (via a figure of speech)
from Lat. tropus "trope, figure of speech, figurative use of word"
from Gk. tropos "figuratively, deportment or character"
Sense evolution (in Fr.) was from "invent with ingenuity" to "invent falsely."
my·o·pi·a | m-
p
-
circa 1727, medical Latin.
from Late Gk. myopia "near-sightedness"
from myops "near-sighted"
from myein "to shut" + ops ( gen. opos) "eye"
de·fense | d
-f
ns
circa 1297, from O.Fr. defens
from Lat. defensum "thing protected or forbidden"
from neut. pp. of defendere "ward off, protect"
It is really quite uncanny that when I heard this word "contrived", I was also hearing a lot of things French. It has happened to me many times now. This correlation kind of thing. I should get used to this by now, more so since I represent the contrived kind. This kind has lost the right to be surprised, because hey how can you be surprised when it was you who prepared the dialogue and delivered it deferred live!?
There is however a contradiction in being myopic and contrived at the same time. By definition, myopic is short sightedness. And to be contrived one cannot afford not to be long sighted! Point to ponder.
But then if you are contrived then you can certainly be defensive at times!
welt·schmerz | vltshmrts
circa 1875, from Ger . Welt "world" + Schmerz "pain"
from MHG . smërze, from Old High German smerzo
Weltschmerz is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. The psychological pain caused by sadness that can occur when realizing that someone's own weaknesses are caused by the inappropriateness and cruelty of the world and (physical and social) circumstances4.
To the clever, Weltschmerz is a pretext for escapism. I can well imagine various leaders over various time lines, pronouncing Weltschmerz with a distaste and mockery. And dismissing it as an expression of romantic pessimism. Anomie and alienation are dangerous words and Émile Durkheim's book Suicide can never be allowed to be read on prime time TV.
My defense for being contrived, myopic, and defensive is my fear of Weltschmerz and my fear of the allure to end it all.
post scriptum, 29th May 2009
Do you remember arindam yesterday when we were having a conversation amongst the so many that we converse, we talked about ' ishod-ushno ' a.k.a Lukewarm and ...my questions... 3, 4,5 ?
And... around that same time frame someplace else in Washington a middle schooler of Indian origin won the US National Spelling Bee championship for 2009...
Kavya Shivshankar of Olethe, Kansas, effortlessly spelt the word Laodicean - which means indifferent or Lukewarm especially in matters of religion and politics - to claim the title after her only remaining American opponent Tim Ruiter flubbed Maecenas, which means a generous benefactor.
Scripps National Spelling Bee is what I saw on 2006 instead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup final. That's how I know the origin.
Echoes – Thank you for your music
9830503234 :: Ari – Richard Wright is no more !!! He died on 15th sept after a short struggle with cancer… he was 65
9831190761 :: Ki bolchis?! You sure?
“In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.” I see him staring at me from the wall.from my wall
9830503234 :: without richard there wouldnt hv bn any pf. I feel broken inside. And in the remaining yrs the others will pass by.. its only a lifetime.
9831190761 :: Let’s turn on the Echoes.
9830503234 :: W.H. Auden porechis.. “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,..” toke pathalam
9831190761 :: “Thank you for your music”. Not “Can i have your autograph?”
Exception To The Rule was published partly on September 19, 2008 in timesonline.co.uk
Independence Day
This has been a nice Independence Day so far. Changed my muse’s name from noname.c. Appended the line “the condition of failure is known as the boundary condition” by an uttering of Lord Byron.
Hey Jude
Every time I listen to this track, I sing it in my head as “…take a love song and make it better”. The track of course is “…take a sad song and make it better”.
Undressed to kill
Couldnt meet the eyes of a working girl Dressed to kill.
Am I being audacious?
