You have tried. You have carried the weight of the world on your shoulders and accepted more responsibilities than you have ever wanted, even intended to gain. It isn’t crushing - you are strong enough to hold it - but you are choking. You don’t know what to do with it. You don’t know where it goes, how to move this weight everyone knows you can hold onto, and do you even want to get rid of it? Never. You would not give this to - force this on - anyone else. but you /can’t/ - but you are choking on it. Your body will hold it up even when you lose all the air in your lungs, and your footing, and your courage. It does not mind choking you. It seems almost designed to do so. If you weren’t wrung out you wouldn’t be doing this thing properly.
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My favorite anachronistic word that shows up everywhere is explosion. Now, explosion first shows up in the late 1538 as a learned borrowing from Latin (explodere, modified from plaudere, “to clap”), meaning to jeer an actor off stage with loud noises or clapping - as you can see from the spelling of plaudere, it’s basically a sister of “to applaud.” In the 17th and 18th centuries, its meaning widened to include driving off anyone with loud noise, violence, or wind.
What’s weird to the modern reader is that the notion that its most commonly used meaning, a destructive blast or similar violent outburst, is first recorded only in 1882, and rather technically. From what I’ve read of people’s writings from the WWI era, it starts to become a widely known concept during the Edwardian period, but most English-speakers still preferred to conceptualize explosions as “blasts.”
Read a WWI-era British soldier’s diary, everything is a “tremendous blast.” Fucking “stupendous, terrific blasts.”
I dreamed that I was playing mariokart and there was a track that took 3 days to complete and when I somehow managed to get 1st place a popup came onscreen that had a pic of koopa troopa and text that read “congratulations!! you’re gonna have so much sex” and I started laughing so hard I woke up
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