Word of the Day: poltroon

poltroon (n)

A coward.

"Every educated man of the nineteenth century is, and must always be, a poltroon and a slave; it is his normal condition."
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Letters from the Underworld and Other Tales

My normal condition, as an educated man of the twenty-first century, is as a fragmented simulacrum of a purveyor of pastiche. So say the post-modernists, anyway. How's Annie?