The Daily Drabble
I'm going to find it hard to top yesterday's dark!drabbles and the wonderful discussions they provoked. Perhaps that is why I like dark writing so much (despite being, for the most part, an unfailingly cheerful person): because they are more thought-provoking than cute writing. I've done my share of cute!drabbles (although usually to underscore the fact that I am capable of writing happy things after a particularly long spell of darkfic, that I'm not torturing Elves in my basement [I don't even have a basement], and to prevent a mass exodus of serotonin reputake inhibitors to my flist). But cute!drabbles (and there are exceptions to this rule) usually inspire not much more than a "Hee! Fluff! Nice! *moving on....*" whereas the dark stuff tends more to coax out the Deep Thoughts™, to borrow allie_meril's phraseology.
Anyway, now that I've gotten that particular ramble out of my system....
onus \OH-nuhs\, noun:
1. A burden; an obligation; a disagreeable necessity.
2. a: A stigma. b: Blame.
3. The burden of proof.
Examples
"And who knew what financial pressures he was under or how desperate was his need to shed the onus of his past?"
-Richard Lingeman, "The Last Party," New York Times, April 27, 1997
"The onus of leadership fell on him."
-Scott Ritter, Endgame
"The critical point, however, was that the Times story freed other publications from the onus of being the first to print the gossip, and everyone felt freer to leap in."
-Gail Collins, Scorpion Tongues
"Nor has the onus of official displeasure fallen heavily enough upon the offenders."
-Edmund Candler, "Mahatma Ghandi," The Atlantic, July 1922
"Mr. King is one of those writers who tries to fend off the onus of a cliche by admitting or underlining it."
-Richard R. Lingeman, "Something Nasty in the Tub," New York Times, March 1, 1977
"Where a claimant contracted asbestosis having been exposed to asbestos dust over a period of years, approximately half of which he had spent working for the defendants, and half of which he had spent working for other employers, the onus was upon him to prove causation."
-"Claimant to prove contribution to his disability," Times (London), April 12, 2000
Etymology
Onus is adopted from Latin onus, "load, burden." The derivative Latin adjective onerosus yields English onerous, "burdensome, oppressive." The related Latin verb onerare has the compound form exonerare, "to free from (ex-) an onus or burden," which yields English exonerate, "to relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or blame."
It's Arafinwë's perspective, just to let you know. (Although I think that's pretty clear.)
Homecoming
When I was small, I would get angry with my father and run away from home. How I hated-upon my inevitable return-that smug tone in his voice!
“Well, look who’s back!”
As I walk into Tirion-Námo’s doom like a leaden weight in my gut-I see the same in the eyes of my father’s people.
My father’s people? No-no longer-
My people.
For them, I assume this onus, for them that I let my pride fester, unlike my brothers, as I stride to the palace (my palace) to meet the Valar.
For them, I come home.
Anyway, now that I've gotten that particular ramble out of my system....
onus \OH-nuhs\, noun:
1. A burden; an obligation; a disagreeable necessity.
2. a: A stigma. b: Blame.
3. The burden of proof.
Examples
"And who knew what financial pressures he was under or how desperate was his need to shed the onus of his past?"
-Richard Lingeman, "The Last Party," New York Times, April 27, 1997
"The onus of leadership fell on him."
-Scott Ritter, Endgame
"The critical point, however, was that the Times story freed other publications from the onus of being the first to print the gossip, and everyone felt freer to leap in."
-Gail Collins, Scorpion Tongues
"Nor has the onus of official displeasure fallen heavily enough upon the offenders."
-Edmund Candler, "Mahatma Ghandi," The Atlantic, July 1922
"Mr. King is one of those writers who tries to fend off the onus of a cliche by admitting or underlining it."
-Richard R. Lingeman, "Something Nasty in the Tub," New York Times, March 1, 1977
"Where a claimant contracted asbestosis having been exposed to asbestos dust over a period of years, approximately half of which he had spent working for the defendants, and half of which he had spent working for other employers, the onus was upon him to prove causation."
-"Claimant to prove contribution to his disability," Times (London), April 12, 2000
Etymology
Onus is adopted from Latin onus, "load, burden." The derivative Latin adjective onerosus yields English onerous, "burdensome, oppressive." The related Latin verb onerare has the compound form exonerare, "to free from (ex-) an onus or burden," which yields English exonerate, "to relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or blame."
It's Arafinwë's perspective, just to let you know. (Although I think that's pretty clear.)
Homecoming
When I was small, I would get angry with my father and run away from home. How I hated-upon my inevitable return-that smug tone in his voice!
“Well, look who’s back!”
As I walk into Tirion-Námo’s doom like a leaden weight in my gut-I see the same in the eyes of my father’s people.
My father’s people? No-no longer-
My people.
For them, I assume this onus, for them that I let my pride fester, unlike my brothers, as I stride to the palace (my palace) to meet the Valar.
For them, I come home.