Prompts List #2
01. darkling;
02. last dance;
03. mutual destruction;
04. no-risk handcuffs;
05. antebellum;
06. folie à plusieurs;
07. legerdemain;
08. the eternal note of sadness;
09. l'esprit de l'escalier;
10. mechanical piano;
11. therapy;
12. Schrödinger's cat;
13. Pavlov's dog;
14. inertia;
15. Not Even Wrong;
16. poker face;
17. saudade;
18. Sword of Damocles;
19. the observer effect;
20. bathos;
21. shiraz;
22. in media res;
23. Möbius loop;
24. the fewness of these colours;
25. light echo;
Notes:
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05. Before the war.
06. The Madness of Many.
07. Slight of hand; a display of skill.
08. In reference to Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold.
09. "People always say the French term l'esprit de escalier does not have an English equivalent; it means the feeling you get after leaving a (usually emotional) conversation and you think of all the things you should have said. (However, it translates nicely into the spirit of the staircase, and once you imagine the staircase as leading down and away from, say, an apartment where you and your lover had an arguement, it works fine for me. So I'm always confused when it's cited as an example of inter-language incompatibility.)"
10. In reference to Portrait of a Lady by TS Eliot.
12. Schrödinger's Cat.
13. Pavlov's Dog.
14. inertia: the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion.
15. Not even wrong.
16. mah-mah-mah-mah.
17. Saudade.
18. The Sword of Damocles: An ever-present threat; an impending disaster. Damocles was a courtier who flattered the ruler Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to excess. The fulsome praise so annoyed the king that he decided to teach him a lesson. He held a banquet in honor of Damocles but when Damocles saw the sword hanging by a single horse-hair over his head, he lost all taste for the lavish feast. He realized that even those who appear to enjoy great fortune face fears and worries. By the way, the word impending literally means hanging over.
19. The observer effect.
20. Bathos.
21. A city and a wine grape.
22. In media res.
23. Möbius strip.
24. XLVIII by E.E. Cummings
come a little further--why be afraid--
here's the earliest star (have you a wish?)
touch me,
before we perish
(believe that not anything which has ever been
invented can spoil this or this instant)
kiss me a litte:
the air
darkens and is alive--
o live with me in the fewness of
these colours;
alone who slightly
always are beyond the reach of death
and the English
25. light echo: The pulse of light from a nova or supernova may reflect from dust in the vicinity and form a temporary reflection nebula. The temporary nebula is known as a light echo.