http://wordie.org/words/magnolia Comments for the word 'Magnolia' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/magnolia#comments Owww! Brain hurts! Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:16:10 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/magnolia#comments http://wordie.org/words/magnolia#comments "The man who has become completely deaf cannot even heat a pan of milk by his bedside without having to keep an eye open to watch, on the tilted lid, fr the white <a href="/words/hyperborean">hyperborean</a> reflexion, like that of a coming snowstorm, which is the premonitory sign it is wise to obey by cutting off (as the Lord stilled the waves) the electric current; for already the fitfully swelling egg of the boiling milk is reaching its climax in a series of sidelong undulations, puffs out and fills a few drooping sails that had been puckered by the cream, sending a <a href="/words/nacreous">nacreous</a> spinnaker bellying out in the hurricane, until the cutting off of the current, if the electric storm is exorcised in time, will make them all twirl round on themselves and scatter like magnolia petals."<br />--<i>The Guermantes Way</i> by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, pp 94-95 of the Modern Library paperback edition Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:46:31 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/magnolia#comments