I'm a fan of words. There are a number of gems which I am particularly fond of, among them: glorious, defenestrate, and lolli pop.
My "favorite" word probably changes on a pretty frequent basis, but right now, I am in love with the word "uisce," which is the Irish word for "water." It's pronounced "ish-ka" and I get great joy out of saying it, and even just knowing what it means. It's on all the water lines and drains and bottles in Ireland, and once I learned the meaning of it in my Irish Language class I felt the need to say it out loud every time I saw it written. Perhaps just to prove I could pronounce it and knew what it meant, but I still find joy out of saying UISCE every time I need a drink or a shower.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Thinking about slave narratives
Here's a word from bell hooks' Feminist Theory: From the Margins to the Center that seems pertinent to our study of Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (and written by hooks about 100 years later: "Living as we did - on the edge - we developed a particular way of seeing reality. We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out. We focused our attention on the center as well as the margin. We understood both."
Pertinent?
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