Quainticity

January 11,2005

Don’t reach for your dictionaries. The word does not exist. But it should, to describe quaint things (in the old-fashioned sense, not Alberto Gonzales’ revised definition that damns the Geneva Conventions as “quaint”), such as the precious lathe work on a Japanese toothpick that allows the top section to be detached and used as a toothpick rest. Or the small red or pink caps that are often placed on the heads of o-jizou-sama statuettes at small shrines dedicated to children around Japan.

Fact is that quainticities are rapidly disappearing from the planet and I thought a word should be created fast to allow future generations of historians to research them.




Quainticity: Postscr...

We regularly visit a new pasta restaurant in our neighborhood called ...

Quainticity

Don’t reach for your dictionaries. The word does not exist. But it should, ...

Love Is All You Need

J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (p.102)
“Modern ...

Henry Miller’s Sta...

Henry had no truck with bullshit, the ministry position or the bourgeoisie. He ...

Cognate Connections

My high school German teacher, Roger Gould, was the first one to introduce me ...