A while back, DubDub said she wished we would post some more good uses of language from what we're reading. I grabbed this up again last night and found an image that makes me feel better, just now. It's from Lucy Maude Montgomery's Rainbow Valley.
... they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat's light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick wall of the lawn.

from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Breakfast of Champions:

And so it goes.

[while-perusing-my-mind-for-a-favorite-Joseph-Conrad- passage e]

"Veranda" is a word that brings back memories. Of old houses with wide shaded porches
located to get the least sun and most breeze on hot days, before electricity became
available. The whole family and guests could sit and chat in a civilized comfortable way.

And your "veranda" (verandah?...alt.sp.?) post coupled with literature, Dr. Bill, brings to mind Tennessee Williams (steady, Dub-Dub ). Summer and Smoke, The Night of the Iguana, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof all bear images of wide shaded porches...Southern style.

from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:

Mendacity! It is all mendacity! Mendacity is the system we live in! --Brick

I picked up the word mendacity and mendacious from that play when I was about 12 years old.

> Mendacity! It is all mendacity! Mendacity is the system we live in! --Brick

I picked up the word mendacity and mendacious from that play when I was about 12 years old.



Disgusting words, both of them. They are even worse in their blatant sex/gender stereotyping than is history.

[private aside to sjm]
hey max, was that, like, irony?
-a bemused USn

[private aside to sjm]

Hey, tsuwm, is that, like, irony?

>[private aside to sjm]
hey max, was that, like, irony?
-a bemused USn


I dunno, but it wasn't, like, for real.

You mean, like, you were being mendacious? Tsk, tsk.

You mean, like, you were being mendacious? Tsk, tsk.

I was being perbeingdacious, puh-lease!