Jobberknoll
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snupin100title: Jobberknoll
Words: 100
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Rating: G (SS/RL angst; what else do I write but angst?)
Spoilers: Nah. If you've read HBP it works; if you've not, it also works.
Note: For Challenge 21, “Feathers.” (If you don't own a copy of Fantastic Beasts, you can find out more about the Jobberknoll at The HP Lexicon.)
Hands move independent of the soul; cutting, shredding, grinding, mixing, and he but an observer, remote.
It is only when he takes up a handful of blue feathers that something cracks. He rips the barbs from the shaft, and the barbules catch in the rough whorls of his fingerprints like silk, like fine brown hair, and he bows his head.
He wonders when he dies will every secret of his blackest heart come tearing from his throat, every dream he's never dared. His fingers clench, just the once, and then he sifts the blue into the cauldron, where memory melts.
Words: 100
Author:
busaikkoRating: G (SS/RL angst; what else do I write but angst?)
Spoilers: Nah. If you've read HBP it works; if you've not, it also works.
Note: For Challenge 21, “Feathers.” (If you don't own a copy of Fantastic Beasts, you can find out more about the Jobberknoll at The HP Lexicon.)
Hands move independent of the soul; cutting, shredding, grinding, mixing, and he but an observer, remote.
It is only when he takes up a handful of blue feathers that something cracks. He rips the barbs from the shaft, and the barbules catch in the rough whorls of his fingerprints like silk, like fine brown hair, and he bows his head.
He wonders when he dies will every secret of his blackest heart come tearing from his throat, every dream he's never dared. His fingers clench, just the once, and then he sifts the blue into the cauldron, where memory melts.
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Date: 2005-09-30 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-30 04:00 am (UTC)I was right that it's "a-keens." It's mainly used about sunflower seeds, But Nabokov used it to refer to strawberries! Is that even fair? It's certainly not fair to inflict the word on your students. though they might say, "Oh yes, of course, I use the word [short eloquent Japanese word meaning strawberry seeds] all the time." You never know.
(Oh, this website (http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/grocery/achenes.html) thinks achenes is legit for the strawberry bumps. Whew! It's a long time since that epiphanous moment, I would be bummed if I had been using such an obscure word wrong for that long.)
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Date: 2005-09-30 06:26 am (UTC)short eloquent Japanese word meaning strawberry seeds
Mystery of translation, that. 'Chrysanthemum' is 'kiku', 'persimmon' is 'kaki', and people here can't believe that English is so hard....
Japanese translations...
Date: 2005-10-04 07:52 pm (UTC)Of course it's nothing like so funny when you see the kanji, because they're different....
Re: Japanese translations...
Date: 2005-10-05 04:27 am (UTC)Dah! The horrid thing is that I know he gets his punning gene from me.
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Date: 2005-09-30 07:36 am (UTC)Sorry.
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Date: 2005-09-30 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 07:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 07:35 am (UTC)I was thinking that no matter what you wrote it hit home and I always liked it.
Angst good !
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