Under a Gibbous Moon

I know this is a few days old, but wow: Giuliani says no ‘domestic terror attacks’ under Bush

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

That is probably my favorite quote from H. P. Lovecraft. It is because, I have found, that enough disparate experiences are pondered upon you will inevitably arrive at interesting results.

And so, begins my tale.

Recently, I was watching my daughter at play. She slobbering on her stuffed animals and throwing things, as 7 month olds are wont to do, when she decided that she had had enough of that and she reached over to grab her pacifier. It was then that I began thinking about the object itself. Particularly how my mother, and damn near everyone else I have met, insists upon calling it a binky (whatever the hell that is). Continue reading “Connotations, Denotations and playing with words” »