
Back to books in my Amazon kindle app...I just finished The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith: The End Of The Story, which is oddly enough, the first collection, written between 1925-1930. Isn't the best book I've ever read, but I read every word. Because, yes, I'm a word junkie.
Especially special Clark Ashton Smith wordsmithing:
contradistinction
athwart
discried
riven
erubescent
acromalegy
allopath
thews
carycitides
trow
nefandous
aspergillus
scayrs
adamantine
telluric
lustrums
Some of these I knew, but I love being able to press the word and a dictionary definition pops up. In the case of this book the dictionary mostly came up with blank. A real contradistinction. All these words should have been included in a virtual dictionary. (flounces from the room)
"Once, or maybe twice, in a lustrum,
Too much wine puts me in a flustrum,
And when I feel gaga,
At the end of the saga
I fall down face-first in Ligustrum" ~ Bard of Buffalo Bayou