December 2010
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Lillian Budd was quiet and fierce and intelligent and chaste and looked like a particularly fine specimen of a long-thought-extinct race of ancient beings. Because she looked so different from anyone else at the school—and, it was suspected, anyone else in the entire world—she almost never caused the sort of resentment and jealousy that other women have towards the gorgeous in commercials for...
sprezzatura
wordjournal:
noun • studied nonchalance.
From Italian, coined in The Book of the Courtier (1528), which describes it as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”
You see all these couples making out on tumblr,...
The two of them waited there at the foot of his bed, in the pale gauze of the neighbor’s strong porchlight, but they didn’t know what they were waiting for. He still cradled the fingers of her right hand. The room held its breath: they could step into each others’ arms now and embrace, there in the dark and without another word. It would be nothing—a journey through six...
