i spread myself across the sea, fingertips greeting foreign woods, lips kissing foreign stars. i'm the boy on his ninth life, arms ablaze with fondness, pupils atramentous, swelling to swallow anything you are.
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swelling to swallow. that is
swelling to swallow.
that is alliteratively delicious.
how kind, thanks unrelated :
how kind, thanks
unrelated : i have been waiting to use "atramentous" for so long, i was pleased with myself.
Do you know anyone
--- even a professor of English --- who'd not be obliged to look this one up?
My Mac dictionary failed me... but a Google rescue worked.
Can you recall your first (most likely, only) exposure to this linguistic curiosity?
i believe i came across the
i believe i came across the definition somewhere online.
translation
you know what i thought at least the english would make a lot more sense than the french
il n'y a rien de logique.
il n'y a rien de logique.