http://wordie.org/words/pentatonic Comments for the word 'Pentatonic' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/pentatonic#comments Another usage note on <a href="/words/hexatonic">hexatonic</a>. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:29:14 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/pentatonic#comments http://wordie.org/words/pentatonic#comments "She stood there again now. For a tone memory like his, there was no difference between past and present. That's what was painful - he could never turn off the sound of loss. It was tragic, but it was also wonderfully sentimental; the day he died it would be just as bad as now, or worse.<br />Above her tone he heard a <a href="/words/pentatonic">pentatonic</a> scale. Exotic, like drums from a tropical jungle, and also deep breathing, like a blacksmith's bellows in the Friland Museum in Århus."<br />bosom - "He took the envelope from a large congratulations card from the dressing table, and on the back wrote with a lipstick what she had demanded. He handed the envelope to the woman.<br />'In the movies,' he said, 'women put perfumed notes like that into their <a href="/words/bosom">bosom</a>. Could I help you do that?'"<br />- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg. Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:56:50 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/pentatonic#comments