perhaps love
"The feeling of falling in love is common but nevertheless ineffable," the protagonist was told in Reflections Of A Kept Ape, in Ian McEwan's In Between The Sheets.
Just like her, I had to check the dictionary for the meaning of "ineffable".
Words can seem so inadequate sometimes, even when you make a living out of them. Or perhaps especially so.
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1. Complete Project 365
2. Read all the unread books I own before buying more
3. Learn to use Photoshop
4. Touch my toes
5. Sell a photo/print
6. Shoot one good photo on film
7. Watch Mayday in concert again, preferably in Taipei
8. Achieve glowing skin
9. Build a Lego house according to its original plan
10. Finish painting all the pictures in the Paint By Numbers kit
11. Buy a cow
12. Make one dish from every recipe book I own
13. Grow my hair until it is one length
14. Stop using eye cream
15. Add my own drawings to an old painting
16. String up garlands and fairy lights over my room
17. Go somewhere with snow
18. Teach Randolph to do Downward Dog
19. Reupholster my mannequin
20. Make a layer cake
21. Sew my own bathrobe
22. Fix the stopped cuckoo clock
23. Make a banner for the blog
24. Hold a picnic with balloons
25. Grow a succulent plant
26. Go to the dentist
27. Have my eyebrows professionally plucked
28. Type a letter on the cursive typewriter
29. Go on a road trip or train journey
30. Create PDFs of the Semi-Successful Social Experiment
31. Complete Tintin comic book collection
32. Keep a scrapbook of home decor and other inspirations
33. Use the words anachronism, quotidian and paradigm (not in the same sentence)
34. Type out this list and pin it somewhere prominent
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3. Learn to use Photoshop
5. Sell a photo/print
6. Shoot one good photo on film
9. Build a Lego house according to its original plan
10. Finish painting all the pictures in the Paint By Numbers kit
15. Add my own drawings to an old painting
18. Teach Randolph to do Downward Dog
21. Sew my own bathrobe
22. Fix the stopped cuckoo clock
23. Make a banner for the blog
30. Create PDFs of the Semi-Successful Social Experiment
31. Complete Tintin comic book collection
33. Use the words anachronism, quotidian and paradigm (not in the same sentence)
1 comment:
It's a naughty word right?
it's like "so-and-so is so cute, so-and-so is so effable!"... or conversely, "she's got a nice toosh but chronic halitosis makes her ineffable."
How many points do I get for my ineffort?
-alfie
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