I wish we brought more of what we're reading here to the board--that we quoted passages more often that had caught our eye for unusual, baffling, and even highly successful applications of words and phrases. We do that to some extent, but I wish we did it more often because it would be interesting to know what people are reading, but, more especially, to see how AWADers are responding to what they're reading--to see which passages catch their eye.

As I said, we do that to some extent, but I wish we did it more regularly.

WW

P.S. I looked up contemplative for fun as I often look up words that are familiar, but to see whether there might be some unusual definitions, and found this:

'morbidly thoughtful'--ha! That's not the application I meant.