aleatory
(en)
(adjective) depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss / (adjective) relating to luck and especially to bad luck
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The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions
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1 year, 10 months ago
The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions
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1 year, 10 months ago
belvedere
(en)
(noun) a structure (as a cupola or a summerhouse) designed to command a view
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Today I reached the belvedere from which you can glimpse, down below, a little stretch of beach, deserted, facing the gray sea.
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1 year, 10 months ago
Today I reached the belvedere from which you can glimpse, down below, a little stretch of beach, deserted, facing the gray sea.
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1 year, 10 months ago
penumbra
(en)
the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object
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the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions.
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1 year, 10 months ago
the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions.
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1 year, 10 months ago
peremptory
(en)
(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay / (adjective) not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply / (adjective) admitting of no contradiction / (adjective) expressive of urgency or command / (adjective) characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance / (adjective) indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature; haughty / (noun) a challenge (as of a juror) made as of right without assigning any cause
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because the arrow's peremptory inexorability, without modulations, excludes all the intentions, implications, hesitations possible in the voice of someone I do not see
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1 year, 10 months ago
because the arrow's peremptory inexorability, without modulations, excludes all the intentions, implications, hesitations possible in the voice of someone I do not see
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1 year, 10 months ago
penumbra
(en)
the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object
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You enter the penumbra of the lowered blinds
he likes this word
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1 year, 10 months ago
You enter the penumbra of the lowered blinds
he likes this word
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1 year, 10 months ago
variegated
(en)
(adj) exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks
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I can't wait to go into reverse, to make the things of the world exist again, one by one or all together, to set their variegated and tangible substance,
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1 year, 10 months ago
I can't wait to go into reverse, to make the things of the world exist again, one by one or all together, to set their variegated and tangible substance,
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1 year, 10 months ago