Saturday 26 May 2012

Somewhere for Red Dirt Girl to Keep Her Portmanteau Words

My very special friend, Red Dirt Girl loves words, and she's recently acquired a truck-load of fresh ones.

I worried about how she'd keep them all organised and to hand for use in her craft as a writer, thinker, philosopher, POET.

Poets need their words to be well kept and carefully nurtured. No mess. To a poet, words are precision tools, honed and edged. You just can't keep precision words in a jumble on the floor. You need something better. Organised. Protected. Secure.  Leather bound, brass latched storage for a lady wordsmith.   Portmanteaux for safe carriage.
 This is for her.
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4 comments:

  1. "Portmanteaus" You mean "cases?" "Bags?"
    Tsk!

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    1. That, you troglodyte, is why poetry is lost to you, why you think watching muddy oafs chase a ball is a cultural activity. cases, bags, pffft!

      Whereas a portmanteau is redolent of travel, of history, of mysterious people on stagecoaches, or well-dressed folk embarking on the sort of train where Agatha Christie would set a dozen murders. These folk don't have bags and cases, they have portmanteaux, valises, steamer-trunks, their luggage unfolds to create a desk whilst they're on safari...

      Mr Pickwick had a portmanteau.

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    2. Oh myyyy - i LOVE this. Build me the shelves sweetheart and help me hunt down old valises, steamer trunks .... and those safari desks - I've lusted for one for years!! My favorite part - portmanteau! I had a short-lived blog entitled The Red Portmanteau ... surprised i never shared it with you. Only a handful of posts. I was having fun making up new words with new definitions by combining existing words.

      Adullamite ~ tsk. tsk. to you! How can you not love words ??? Bags? Really?

      xxxxx

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  2. "Portmanteau."

    Definition of 'portmanteau' appears to be 'Big case, used by lower upper class to murder people on overpriced railway trains, in Europe.'
    Typical!

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