Wordie: Trepidation: Comments

Comment by qroqqa, 2 months ago

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:16:53 +0000

But trepidation of the spheares,
Though greater farre, is innocent.
—Donne, 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'

The touching of the Ptolemaic spheres one upon the other produced the music of the spheres.

Comment by five, 5 months ago

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:04:11 +0000

I hate this word. It is simply overused, particularly by sci-fi, fantasy, and gothic fiction authors. The worst abuse I have seen is in Bloodline by Kate Cary (which is, despite good reviews on Amazon, an absolute literary abomination!)