#someday when i'm a published author that teachers are making their kids read in class there will be essays on my overuse/obsession with it
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Anyone else have a favorite obscure or ridiculous word that they love so much they have to put it in everything they write as soon as they have even the faintest excuse to do so?
Mine is incarnadine.
#i fell in love with it the first time i read macbeth#the line has lived in my head echoing like a drum off the walls of a sepulcher ever since#(sepulcher comes in for second place; love that one too)#seriously though how do you hear this and remain unchanged:#will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?#no this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red#hot DAMN that is an IMAGE my friends!#fucking great word#someday when i'm a published author that teachers are making their kids read in class there will be essays on my overuse/obsession with it#and they'll make those poor kids come up with all sorts of deep answers when the truth is just that it FUCKING ROCKS#words#language#english#me#writing#my writing#incarnadine
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