Word of the Day: bizarrerie

bizarrerie (n)

Something bizarre.

"It was a freak of fancy in my friend to be enamored
of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie,
as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself
up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon."
--Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

My wyfe just returned to our abode with an item she found in someone's trash receptacle on a nearby byway: a bone-white mannequin's arm, which has now joined the collection of imitation, alabaster body parts we keep on an antiquarian wheelchair in a corner of our drawing room. Do we live in a bizarrerie? Some might think so. But most visitors seem to find it both funny and... funny. Judge for yourself -- by appointment only.