5 billowy C words + 4 other C definitions
CONCISION: A language no one speaks anymore.
CORSET: Prevents having children.
CRUCIFIX: Looks good in an alcove and on the guillotine
CUT-RATE: Good name for a shop: inspires confidence.
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Born in France, in 1821, Gustave Flaubert died in 1880
but THE DICTIONARY OF ACCEPTED IDEAS
was not published until 1913.
The original title, translated to English,
was THE DICTIONARY OF RECEIVED IDEAS.
Someone named Kafka was maddeningly influenced
by this dictionary and other Flaubert books.
I wish I had read anything by Flaubert forty years ago.
I read this dictionary forty days ago.
At least half of the 800 definitions
could have been written
four days ago.
Flaubert's dictionary should be
required reading for anyone who breathes.
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Noble due to the horse
ReplyDeleteThird definition yours?
ReplyDeleteIf so, seems mocking,
Did you mean to be?
Can it be softened so
that it doesn't.
None of the words
Deletenor their definitions
are mine.
They are ineradicably
the words of Gustave Flaubert.
I assure you that the Man
who was crucified on that cross
gave a high five to Flaubert
upon the latter's being
chauffeured through
the Pearly Gates
on May 8, 1880
Flaubert's Death-day (May 8)
morphed into the Birth-day of
Harry S. Truman (1884)
and Don Rickles (1926)
Concision: Paul running with scizzors
ReplyDeleteFlaubert might not have agreed
Deletebut i can dig it, especially due to
the sizzling spelling
of the last word.