Hideous Progeny

Remember these?

feigned, levity, colossal, supercilious,fractiousness, wan, languidly, infinitesimal, complacency, extemporizing, ether, prodigality, vacuous, florid, corpulent, obstetrical, implored, vinous, rent, asunder, jaunty, punctilious, somnambulatory, molars, benediction, reproach, laudable, meretricious, elude, receded, ceaselessly.

Vocabulary words from The Great Gatsby, in order of appearance.

Simple, one-line entries like '"No snow today" can be inspiring later.

From Bernadette Mayer's writing experiments.

can't breathe or sleep. can't stop thinking about the man who consented to be had for dinner, who tasted his own dismembered member before willingly being filleted. this was a real news story in le monde today. It made me feel sort of apart from my own body.