Erratic
Original Source:
"We are not talking here about the kind of notebook that is patently for public consumption, a structural conceit for binding together a series of graceful pensees; we are talking about something private, abut bits of the mind's string too short to use, an indiscriminate and erratic assemblage with meaning only for its maker."
"On Keeping
a Notebook by Joan Didion." h-ngm-n.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Jan.
2014.
<http://www.h-ngm-n.com/storage/didion%20-%20on%20keeping%20a%20notebook.pdf>.
Definition*:
deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion; eccentric; queer.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim."
"Alice
Foote MacDougall at BrainyQuote." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 7
Jan. 2014.
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alicefoote403858.html>.
Commentary:
My first thought was that erratic meant violently shaking, when in actuality, the meaning has nothing to do with quick movement. Didion, in the original source, describes the assemblage of an atypical notebook that only has a purpose for its creator. MacDougall, in the second source, describes success as an odd, interesting thing that does not occur in a fixed fashion.
My first thought was that erratic meant violently shaking, when in actuality, the meaning has nothing to do with quick movement. Didion, in the original source, describes the assemblage of an atypical notebook that only has a purpose for its creator. MacDougall, in the second source, describes success as an odd, interesting thing that does not occur in a fixed fashion.
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