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Jun. 3rd, 2003
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nictitate v.i. Close and open the eyes, wink.
I learned this word from Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, a fantastic, brilliant, just amazing book about a person who is born a girl and then becomes a boy at age 14. (This is not a spoiler, it's more or less the novel's first line.) Hence the title (it does *not* refer to a county near Milton Keynes).
Anyway, potential application of t'word:
"Richard stared, mesmerised, at Orlando's nictitating lids."
( Why I am all aflutter )
I learned this word from Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, a fantastic, brilliant, just amazing book about a person who is born a girl and then becomes a boy at age 14. (This is not a spoiler, it's more or less the novel's first line.) Hence the title (it does *not* refer to a county near Milton Keynes).
Anyway, potential application of t'word:
"Richard stared, mesmerised, at Orlando's nictitating lids."
( Why I am all aflutter )