I think I've forgotten what it's like to feel well, so I'll just have to fake it. In my absences I have continued to read, though not as much (sleeping a lot) and I have collected more words you may or may nor want to share with me.

parataxis [noun, mass noun ] Grammar: the placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination, as in Tell me, how are you? Contrasted with |-ˈtaktɪk| adjective, paratactically |-ˈtaktɪk(ə) adverb ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Greek parataxis, from para- ‘beside’ + taxis ‘arrangement’ (from tassel ‘arrange’).

hypotaxis [|noun [ mass noun ] Grammar: the subordination of one clause to another. Contrasted with parataxis.DERIVATIVES hypotactic |-ˈtaktɪk| adjective ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Greek hypotaxis, from hupo ‘under’ + taxis ‘arrangement’.

NICE TO KNOW BUT I DON'T THINK I'LL USE THAT.

horripilate noun, literary: the erection of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear, or excitement - : a horripilation of dread tingled down my spine. DERIVATIVES horripilate, verb, my skin horripilated ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from late Latin horripilatio(n-), from Latin horror ‘stand on end’ (see horrid) + pilus ‘hair’.

I NEVER KNEW THIS. I LIKE IT. WE CAN USE THIS ONE, CAN'T WE?

ostinato noun (pl.ostinatos: a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm. [ as modifier ] : the cellos have the tune, above an ostinato bass figure. ORIGIN Italian, literally ‘obstinate'

USEFUL?

auragraph No entries found, but I know what it is. I'm still reading that diary by Jean Pratt, up to the 1950s now, and the auragraph was a fad, a track of graph of a person's aura. I doubt it ever made its way ito a dictionary.

enantiosemes: Also no entries in the online dictionary but I noted when I read it that it means words which have the same form but contradictory meaning.

I'LL BUY THAT because I remember that TweedleDum and TweedleDee are enantiomorphs, twins that look alike but are contradictory (in appearance., mirrors of each other, and in their contradictory speech.). Have you ever read Martin Gardner's "The Annotated Alice"? That's where I learned that.

terrane noun: Geology: a fault-bounded area or region with a distinctive stratigraphy, structure, and geological history. ORIGIN early 19th cent: from popular Latin. Compare with terrain. OKAY: terrain |noun: a stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features: they were delayed by rough terrain. ORIGIN early 18th cent. (denoting part of the training ground in a riding school): from French, from a popular Latin variant of Latin terrenum, neuter of terrenus (see terrene) . OKAY, BUT THIS IS THE LAST ONE... terrene adjective archaic: of or like earth. terrene dust.• occurring on or inhabiting dry land. a terrene vertebrate.• of the world; secular rather than spiritual .ORIGIN Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin terrenus, from terra ‘earth’.

Oh my, words do lead one on, don't they? But I'm going to bed now.

When one piece of the structure goes, the whole framework is weakened. It's even worse when dealing with human beings. Like me. I'm losing it. Or have lost it.

Well, as they say, tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life. So I'll start again.

Tomorrow - whatever day SquareSpace says it is.

So here it is, late in the day - whatever day...I finally faced the computer, not for creative purposes but to try to straighten out some of my fiddley problems. You all know how many thankless, countless, heartless hours one can spend coping with glitches not always of one's own making. As for me, I am pretending I'm getting better physically give or take a box of Kleenex or two. I don't believe in benadryl or mucinex or tylanol cough cure. I believe in sleep and water, taken internally.

I was about to refer to Ivan illich (1926-2002), thinking I knew about him. Just shows: you pick up what you understand, what fits your needs and your current rate of development, and the rest is blather. I thought he was a medical doctor. Uh, uh. He was a theologian, philosopher, sociologist and historian and before all that -a Catholic priest, a monsignor by the time he was 30, before he bowed out (or was asked?). He was a thorn in the Vatican's side, among others'. One of his first books was Deschooling, criticising education methods. But the one whose message drifted into my consciousness was Medical Nemesis (aka Limits to Medicine), developing the idea that medicine causes more harm than good.

The notion of iatrogenic disease -illness caused by physicians or medication - actually was considered a century earlier by Florence Nightingale. It is now the third leading cause of death (after cancer and heart disease). Well, I'm not going to dwell on it now. What I picked up when I first heard the tern was that if you get sick, sleep more and be well hydrated. That's all.

I could go on but my battery can't. Anon, anon.