[Fictionary] fub results!

[fictioneric at cluemail.com]

About my def:

>fub, n. A brightly-enameled decorative tile.
>
>   "Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
>    Is thick inlaid with fubs and orbs of gold,--
>    There's not the smallest star which thou behold'st
>    But in his motion like an angel sings,
>    Still quiring to the wide-eyed cherubims."
>
>Hutch gives 1 point-- This feels right: both the definition and the quote.
>Elliott is inclined to think that the quotation is entirely synthetic.
>"Jessica" sounds too modern, and there would be no reason to insert a
>modern name if all you were doing was replacing some other
>monosyllable with "fub" in a real quotation.  Also, why ",--"?
>Jean-Joseph says, accusingly: "Another one that doesn't say what work
>it comes from.  Cowards."

And to Elliott and Jean-Joseph I say, fine!  And hah!  The quotation 
is from _The Merchant of Venice_, spoken by Lorenzo, Act V Scene 1:

    "Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven
     Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold,--
     There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
     But in his motion like an angel sings,
     Still quiring to the wide-eyed cherubims.
     Such harmony is in immortal souls;
     But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay
     Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."

As for why ",--", because that's how my source has it, and I don't 
know how Shakespeare did things but 18th- and 19th-century usage 
loved to punctuate before, after, and probably during em-dashes.

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-- Eric   |   fictioneric at cluemail.com