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Selesnya.
Don’t look it up, pretend this is a pub quiz and you’re *not* cheating on it..
Any guesses to where the word comes from? What it might mean? What images does it conjur up for you?
Become a Patron!“The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the grey fringed fleece of clouds. No, it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language many-coloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?”
James Joyce (have you read his love letters?)
Whimsical and wonderful, Mistress. I would say “as usual” but I take nothing for granted. Thank you.
“Selesnya” to me means the guild of Ravnica represented by green and white…. but you already knew I knew that.
Thank you for this week’s fuel of nestled word-runes 🙂