drench
– verb
1. to wet thoroughly; soak.
2. to saturate by immersion in a liquid; steep.
3. to cover or fill completely; bathe.
4. to administer a draft of medicine, esp. by force.
5. to cause to drink.
con·duit
– noun
1. a pipe, tube, or the like, for conveying water or other fluid.
2. a similar natural passage.
3. a structure containing one or more ducts.
4. a fountain.
por·tal
– noun
1. a door, gate, or entrance, esp. one of imposing appearance.
2. an iron or steel bent for bracing a framed structure, having curved braces between the vertical members and a horizontal member at the top.
3. an entrance to a tunnel or mine.
4. a Web site that functions as an entry point to the Internet, as by providing useful content and linking to various sites and features on the World Wide Web.
con·vey
– verb
1. to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
2. to communicate; impart; make known.
3. to lead or conduct, as a channel or medium; transmit.
4. to transfer; pass the title to.
5. steal; purloin.
6. to take away secretly.
con·tem·po·rar·y
– adj.
1. existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time.
2. of about the same age or date.
3. of the present time; modern.
– noun
4. a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others.
5. a person of the same age as another.
mod·ern
– adj.
1. of or pertaining to present and recent time; not ancient or remote.
2. characteristic of present and recent time; contemporary; not antiquated or obsolete.
3. of or pertaining to the historical period following the Middle Ages.
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of contemporary styles of art, literature, music, etc., that reject traditionally accepted or sanctioned forms and emphasize individual experimentation and sensibility.
5. new.
6. noting or descriptive of a font of numerals in which the body aligns on the baseline, as 1234567890.
– noun
7. a person of modern times.
8. a person whose views and tastes are modern.
9. a type style differentiated from old style by heavy vertical strokes and straight serifs.
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness, and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation."
- Norman Mailer
- Norman Mailer
"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Hunter S. Thompson
"Stranded in a life in which your struggle for acceptance is a never-ending chore. Upbraided for your actions, past and present, and rewarded for ideas of the future's bright open door. The henchman is the human analogue of the suffering multitudes who like good dogs sit and lick for their reward. So what good advice have I got for you to insure against your likely metamorphosis into this reprobate? Don't be a henchman! Stand on your laurels! Do what no one else does and praise the good of other men for goodness sake! And when everyone else in the world follows your lead, although a cold day in hell it will surely be, that's when the entire world shall live in harmony."
- Bad Religion
- Bad Religion
God·head
– noun
1. the essential and divine nature of God, regarded abstractly.
2. divinity; godhood.
3. a god or goddess; deity.
cult
– noun
1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers.
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
7. the members of such a religion or sect.
8. any system that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
or·gone
– noun
1. a vital, primal, nonmaterial element or energy believed to permeate the universe and emanate from all organic material.
"Man's identification with his idea of himself gives him a specious and precarious sense of permanence. For this idea is relatively fixed, being based upon carefully selected memories of his past, memories which have a preserved and fixed character. Social convention encourages the fixity of the idea because the very usefulness of symbols depends on their stability. Convention therefore encourages him to associate his idea of himself with equally abstract and symbolic roles and stereotypes, since these will help him to form an idea of himself which will be definite and intelligible. But to the degree that he identifies himself with the fixed idea, he becomes aware of 'life' as something which flows past him--faster and faster as he grows older, as his idea becomes more rigid, more bolstered with memories. The more he attempts to clutch the world, the more he feels it as a process in motion."
- Alan Watts
- Alan Watts
ten·ta·cle
– noun
1. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, esp. invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
2. a sensitive filament or process.
ten·dril
– noun
1. a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- J.R.R. Tolkien
“You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.”
- Frank Miller
- Frank Miller
glow·er
- noun
1. a look of sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- verb
1. look at with a fixed gaze.
2. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval.
glare
– noun
1. a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
2. a fiercely or angrily piercing stare.
3. dazzling or showy appearance; showiness.
– verb
4. to shine with or reflect a very harsh, bright, dazzling light.
5. to stare with a fiercely or angrily piercing look.
6. to appear conspicuous; stand out obtrusively.
sig·na·ture
– noun
1. a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
2. the act of signing a document.
3. a sign or set of signs at the beginning of a staff to indicate the key or the time of a piece.
4. a song, musical arrangement, sound effect, etc.
5. any unique, distinguishing aspect, feature, or mark.
6. that part of a written prescription that specifies directions for use.
7. a distinctive characteristic or set of characteristics by which a biological structure or medical condition is recognized.
8. a printed sheet folded to page size for binding together, with other such sheets, to form a book, magazine, etc.
9. a. a letter or other symbol generally placed by the printer at the foot of the first page of every sheet to guide the binder in folding the sheets and in gathering them in sequence.
b. a sheet so marked.
10. a characteristic trace or sign that indicates the presence of a substance or the occurrence of a physical process or event.
– adj.
11. serving to identify or distinguish a person, group, etc.
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