Weird Wednesday Feb. 21: A Post Post
One day, many eons ago—
Eons? Really?
Well a few years, but it feels like eons. Anyway, an undetermined amount of time ago, I sat and decided to sketch something. Anything. Turns out, I’m pretty good at drawing posts. Can’t draw people worth a damn, but posts? Sure what the heck, I’ll take that.
For me, the hardest thing to do is to stop drawing before I make that one extra line that wrecks the picture. Oh, “So close”, he says as he tries to erase which only creates a palimpsest of gray.
Palimpsest?
palimpsest: /ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/ noun: something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
Don’t feel bad, I had never heard that word before until I read it in a novel (review coming tomorrow)—
And Tomorrow?
You caught that, huh?
Anyway, I saw the word, and from the context I was able to comprehend it’s meaning (or maybe I had seen that word before) but in the same book it came up again and I wondered, “How many times should an author use a unique word before it seems annoying?”
Turns out for me, twice. Don’t ask me why, but it annoyed me.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.
My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/
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