This. happy sigh. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming loooove!
keke, also happy because last night instead of spending hours on the computer doing resarch data abstraction on one monitor + streaming (insert tv show here) on another monitor as whitenoise-entertainment as I have been doing most nights post-workday... I read an entire 400+ pg book for fun. wheee! been a while. indulgence. lol also had a nice long phonechat with little bro davodyman =)
glad to have been here in austin this summer, and sad to go because these weeks have gone by so so quickly... but excited for what the next few months will bring! much stretching+growing to come.
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also, learned a cool new word just now: qua
"as, in the capacity of," from Latin qua "where? on which side? at which place? which way? in what direction?" figuratively "how? in what manner? by what method?; to what extent? in what degree?" correlative pronominal adverb of place, from PIE *kwo-, stem of relative and interrogative pronouns (source also of Old English hwa "who;" see who).
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=qua
Can you use qua in a sentence?
ReplyDeleteVery Latin-y and pretty esoteric, but ex:
ReplyDelete-The work of art qua art can be judged by aesthetic criteria only.
-If the world exists purely to be known, and if every other working of reason comes into consideration qua incomplete knowledge, Hegel is right with his sweeping intellectualism.