In Search of the Nightmare
The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781 ----------------- Sunday, October 26, 2008 ACROSTIC by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine, by Patricia Pearson, provides the paraphrased quotation for today’s acrostic. The quotation: I WOULD PREFER NOT TO BE AFRAID OF PHONE BILLS BLACK BEARS CLIMATE CHANGE HEIGHTS FLYING THE PROSPECT THAT THE SUPERVOLCANO UNDERLYING YOSEMITE WILL ERUPT AND KILL US AND THAT THE CAR IM DRIVING WILL SIMPLY EXPLODE. The author’s name and the title of the work: PEARSON HISTORY OF ANXIETY
The defined words: PLANE; EVILTWIN (B. Sinister sort of doppelgänger [2 wds.]); APLOMB; RISK; SHELLEY; OVERWHELM; NIGHTMARE; HIPPOGRIFF; INCUBUS (I. Demon that preys on the unconscious); STEPHENKING (J. Winner of a 2002 Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement [2 wds.]); TRAUMATIC; OCTET; RATTLED; YELLOW; ODDBALL; FRIGHTFUL; ANGSTRIDDEN; NECROPOLIS; XENOPHOBE; ICARUS; EYEPATCH (U. Accessory for a pirate costume); YIDDISH (W. Language from which “golem” comes).
With its phobias, psychoses, paranoia and monsters, this acrostic is delightfully in tune with the season!
Uh, about that supervolcano underlying Yosemite!…try Yellowstone!
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