Today's Weird Word: Apperceptive Achatina

[shadowkat]

Picked up this really cool coloring book from an art gallery in Jim Thorpe, PA. .
The Stabin Morykin gallery was exhibiting an Alphabet Book by this artist named Victor Stabin
who poured over every word in the dictionary to come up with interesting word combos and then drew bizarre Daliesque (Salvador Dali) pictures regarding them.


The first combo is:

apperceptive achatina

apperceptive, n. : Consciousness of the mind of its own consciousness; self-reflective perception applied to metaphysical ends

achatina,n. A giant African snail

Hee.


In other news, rather enjoying this brilliant fanfic by rahirah entitled Necessary Evils - had me on the edge of my seat last night. Been a while since I've been enraptured by a story. Would be nice if I could find this on my bookshelves as opposed to the internet. Then I could actually read it in bed and on the way to work in the morning. But we can't have everything. (yes, I know I could print it off - but I have a crappy printer.)

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I think I'll be doing that once TYSK is done and I've gone back and fiddled with it.