Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Word of the Day: lucubrations

lucubrations (n)

A serious piece of literary writing that is the product of laborious cogitation (i.e., what this blog is not).

"These and similar performances were half-hearted, because [he] was finding his true level in the alleged lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff."
--Richard Steele, the Tatler

Love that name: Isaac Bickerstaff. I've often wished to have a more distinctive name, rather than this one, which I must share with thousands of others, some unsavory, across the nation.

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