(September 29, 2018 – 5:19 PM)Elias Grimstone Wrote:  This is just a general writing confession, in hopes I am not alone in this, but: do you ever permanently connect a word to where you first read it, or a time you read it in something and it just weirdly stuck? It's similar to that weird sentimental thing of "this song always makes me think of a particular place/person/memory", but legit just like... it's a word.

This brought to you by the fact I just wrote 'mawkish' and instantly snapped back to Wuthering Heights. I can't read the word 'irascible' without thinking of Ron Weasley in DH. WORDS ARE WEIRD.

I remember watching the movie Twilight when it came out (I was like 8, okay.) and I immediately thought it was weird in the narration when Bella Swan said, "And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him." because (1) I was 8 and didn't know wtf the word "irrevocably" meant, and (2) it sounded so strange coming from a character whose lines were so simple and otherwise boring.

SO, in short, whenever I read/write that word I get flashbacks to Bella Swan staring out her bedroom window and it bothers me.