- Omphaloskepsis: meditation while gazing at one’s navel.
- Pickedevant: a Van Dyke beard.
- Malneirophrenia: depression following a nightmare.
- Lissotrichous: having straight hair.
- Junkettaceous: frivolous, worthless.
- Sinciput: the forehead.
- Whigmaleery: a knickknack or a geegaw; a whim.
- Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping.
- Goubemouche: a gullible person (literally, one who swallows flies).
- Kakkorhaphiophobia: fear of failure.
- Nibby-jibby: narrow margin; a close call.
- Anaphalantiasis: the falling out of the eyebrows.
- Quakebuttock: a coward.
- Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing.
- Floccinaucinihilipilification: the categorizing of something as worthless trivia.
Mario Avati
Le Grand Paon
Michael Lisi / Contemporary Art
date
1975medium mezzotint
edition size
10sheet size
17 x 20 ½ inches
© Thomas Hoepker, 1954, Old woman in a snowstorm, Hamburg
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” (Sylvia Plath)
(Source: burnedshoes, via yama-bato)