a deed a something of garlic, lifting
but there is a something of obscurity in the arrangement, ₁
a something of a heat of mind, or an irritation, ₂
a deed, a something of garlic;
and that it has some magical undertones ₃ —
a something of moment to come — which word modulated, I apprehend,
implies variety of inflexion, and if so, sets all doubt at rest. ₄
It was this shortcoming which gave a something of hardness to
that craving of the soul for space and solitude, ₅
a something of resoluteness, lifting
Listen to the silence now —
how that little clock sweeps out its beats upon ₆
a something of some kind to help pass the time. ₇
It is not rare to hear comments such as :
“I don’t know what’s happening” — this
is something of a pilot’s nightmare. ₈
sources
- a review of Gabriel Surenne, his The Pocket French Grammatical and Critical Dictionary (1830), in The Imperial Magazine (December 1830) : 1138-1140 (1139) / more
- “but nothing of a violent nature”
A Digest of the Evidence in the Second Report of the Select Committee on the State of Ireland; by George White, Clerk to the Committee (London, 1825) : 282 / more - Reuven Kiperwasser, “Facing Omnipotence and Shaping the Sceptical Topos,” in Reuven Kiperwasser and Geoffrey Herman, eds., Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism (2021) : 191-123 (109) / more
- “Etymology sometimes helps us out of a difficulty of this kind.”
“To the Editor; On the philosophy of musical composition, No. 6.” In The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review 5:18 (1823) : 145-152 (150) / more - A Psyche of To-day (by Mrs. C. Jenkin); (1868) : 154 / more
- N. Walter Swan, Tales of Australian Life (London, 1875) : 52 / more
- Johnny Golding, “The Courage to Matter,” in Johnny Golding, Martin Reinhart andMattia Paganelli, eds., Data Loam : Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems (2020) : 480 / more
- Antonio Chialastri, “AF 447 as a Paradigmatic Accident: The Role of Automation on a Modern Airplane,” in Tetiana Shmelova, et al, eds., Automated Systems in the Aviation and Aerospace Industries (2019) : 166-191 (183) /more
aside —
This errand into its a-something-of wilderness — composed solely of others’ words, for I cannot credit my own; and subject to italics, dashes, commas even, introduced in progressive passes — nears its end.
It is time to move on.