The word of the day for April 22, 2008 is "excrescence" — noun — 1 : a projection or outgrowth especially when abnormal [warty excrescences in the colon]. 2 : a disfiguring, extraneous, or unwanted mark or part : blot. 3 : by-product 2 .
The Renaissance Fest was not the only thing I did last weekend. I also bought clippers to trim Lloyd's hair. Betty Lewis, who cut his hair for about 25 years, retired a few years ago. He hasn't been able to find a barber to suit him since then. For the past month he has been telling me that he needed a hair cut, but when I would offer to go with or take him to a barber, he would say "Not right now." Or he would carp about my choice of barber or shop. So I have given in, and he is nearly cue ball at the moment.
Also for the past few weeks I've had to shave him, because his hands have developed arthritis. It must be especially hard for him to give up personal grooming because of inability. His finger and toe nails are another thing I have to do for him. I now have a rotary file machine because his nails are so tough. If he decides that he doesn't like the way I trim him, he'll just have to try for the Guiness Records for hair and nails. lol
Our quote for today is from Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. Paper, Autumn 1986, New York. “The Anorexic Ruins,” repr. In Looking Back on the End of the World, ed. Dietmar Kamper and Christoph Wulf (1989):
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are
living in a society of excrescence.... The boil is growing out of control, recklessly
at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
;^) Jan
5 comments:
When I see an alert from you I am always keen to see what the word of the day is ,I have to admitt to not being familier with this one, but you explain it very well ,so now..... when Im next in company I will need to steer the conversation in such a way that I can use it .hee heee ....love Jan xx
... she dialed the numbers, the damning numbers and when a female voice answered, she KNEW ... her fears confirmed, the wedding ring on her finger which represented love and fidelity, was now an abmonimation, an excresecence of the sore that was on her heart ...
... whew ..! that was a TOUGH word ..!
There was a programme on TV the other night about just that...excrescence....A poor fellow in India had the most awful growths on his hands and now growing on his face..The American Dr who came to see him had never seen anything like it. His hands looked just like very old and twisted tree trunks completely unusable..
I am sorry to read that lloyds hands are so bad with the arthritis that he isn't able to use them to do so many things. Thank Goodness you are there to help. Much Love Sybil xx
My wife's been cutting my hair for a decade. I hate going to the barber, probably because as a kid I had to go to freak old guy at the local shop whose hands seemed to linger on your shoulder *just* a few minutes too long.
Plus I hate spending $ lol
When oh when is AOL going to give us bold, italic, quote, underline, and spell-check in the comments :)?
Dan
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Congratulations for wining the Weekly Sentence with Val!
Krissy :)
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