Friday, December 12, 2003

disembogue (dis-em-BOAG) verb intr.

To discharge or pour out, as from the mouth of a river or stream.

verb tr.

To discharge.

[From Spanish desembocar (to flow out), from des- (dis-) + embocar (to put
into the mouth), from Latin en- (in) + boca (mouth), from bucca (cheek).]
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This word reminds me of disgourge but the only instance I know of where even that word was used is scriptural: The serpent disgorged water like a river.... (Rev 12: 15). The association probably comes from "river" which is used in both. Rivers of life, rivers of styx, rivers of writing down on the page. This is going nowhere quick. I think this will be a good day for editing. Rivers of ice are coming from the sky. Well not rivers. Spikes maybe? Freezing rain that click-clacks against the windows. Sounds like rather like typewriter keys. So maybe I should try to keep rhythm with it. There isn't any rhythm, really. I guess even when you're typing madly away there is not a rhythm. It's the words themselves that take on rhythm not the creation of them? Oh, oh--and here we are at the library book I checked out today: Writing Your Rhythm Using Nature, Culture, Form & Myth by Diane Thiel.

And so here are words disembouged for ten minutes.

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