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My, I have been posting a lot today, haven't I?
As tempting as it is to post ever more and more (I love journaling, can you tell? ;D), this will be the last today. I am working on a side quest for my husband's RPG character, and I really need to make some progress on that today. And, also, I have a piece of challenge writing for the "Confessions to the Sleepless Night" challenge over at HASA that I am working on--experimental, of course--and that I love so far. It is Finwe and Miriel and my first time with those characters in a serious sense. (Not counting the stupid Sil play, in other words.)
But I can't let the day go by without a drabble! I will probably not do the daily drabble this weekend because I'm going to be very busy and I love the multi-part drabbles that tend to happen on Monday morning as the result of having three words to do instead of one.
But here is today's:
hauteur \haw-TUR; (h)oh-\, noun:
Haughty manner, spirit, or bearing; haughtiness; arrogance.
"[M]y silence, I hoped, would be taken as expressive of the hauteur of a man who was above it all -- a man with a mission, in fact, a mission authorized from somewhere on high."
-Jeffrey Tayler, Facing the Congo
"Sheikhs and presidents have often heard little about the royal family's follies, and don't object to the hauteur and self-importance that remain its inextinguishable traits."
-Hugo Young, "Blair and the Queen," The Guardian, April 10, 2001
"That self-deprecation and lack of hauteur are typical of the earthy style that enables Powell to get close to his troops in a way that many top brass never do."
-"Colin Powell: The master planner of Desert Shield is ready for its ultimate test," People, December 31, 1990
Etymology
Hauteur is from the French, from haut, "high," from Latin altus, "high." It is thus related to altitude.
~oOo~
I should warn for some sexual innuendo. Proceed with caution ;)
My Fëanaro
The man I married cared not for matters of court.
The man I married scorned the hauteur of the lords’ daughters who sought the eminence of a romantic association with him.
The man I married had dirt on his clothes and broken fingernails from working so hard—but his hands knew my body and enveloped it with the silken totality of warm water.
The man I married cried by name with such reverence that I believed myself Varda; I believed that I had painted his sky with stars.
The man I married was my Fëanaro.
You are not my Fëanaro.
As tempting as it is to post ever more and more (I love journaling, can you tell? ;D), this will be the last today. I am working on a side quest for my husband's RPG character, and I really need to make some progress on that today. And, also, I have a piece of challenge writing for the "Confessions to the Sleepless Night" challenge over at HASA that I am working on--experimental, of course--and that I love so far. It is Finwe and Miriel and my first time with those characters in a serious sense. (Not counting the stupid Sil play, in other words.)
But I can't let the day go by without a drabble! I will probably not do the daily drabble this weekend because I'm going to be very busy and I love the multi-part drabbles that tend to happen on Monday morning as the result of having three words to do instead of one.
But here is today's:
hauteur \haw-TUR; (h)oh-\, noun:
Haughty manner, spirit, or bearing; haughtiness; arrogance.
"[M]y silence, I hoped, would be taken as expressive of the hauteur of a man who was above it all -- a man with a mission, in fact, a mission authorized from somewhere on high."
-Jeffrey Tayler, Facing the Congo
"Sheikhs and presidents have often heard little about the royal family's follies, and don't object to the hauteur and self-importance that remain its inextinguishable traits."
-Hugo Young, "Blair and the Queen," The Guardian, April 10, 2001
"That self-deprecation and lack of hauteur are typical of the earthy style that enables Powell to get close to his troops in a way that many top brass never do."
-"Colin Powell: The master planner of Desert Shield is ready for its ultimate test," People, December 31, 1990
Etymology
Hauteur is from the French, from haut, "high," from Latin altus, "high." It is thus related to altitude.
~oOo~
I should warn for some sexual innuendo. Proceed with caution ;)
My Fëanaro
The man I married cared not for matters of court.
The man I married scorned the hauteur of the lords’ daughters who sought the eminence of a romantic association with him.
The man I married had dirt on his clothes and broken fingernails from working so hard—but his hands knew my body and enveloped it with the silken totality of warm water.
The man I married cried by name with such reverence that I believed myself Varda; I believed that I had painted his sky with stars.
The man I married was my Fëanaro.
You are not my Fëanaro.
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