8.10.2020

TOURETTES in class « Des distilleries trop chauffées déplacent des tibias absents, infiltra des crémeries infrasonique de feu »

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

architecture: grotesque, incongruous

 

grotesque

 


antic (plural antics)

    (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
   

 

A caricature.
    (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.

 

        And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.

 


    1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book the sixth

 


        I've 'ad about enough of you and your antics. I been thinking you over, you and your war and your Empire and all the rot of it. Rot it is! […] And all for nothin'. Jest silly prancing! Jest because you've got the uniforms and flags! Then you get […] all your silly fleet smashed up to rags. And you want to go on prancin' now! Look at the mischief you done! Look at the way you smashed up New York — the people you killed, the stuff you wasted. Can't you learn?

 

   1908, H. G. Wells, The War in the Air, chapter IX, section 7
   

 


        I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few […]

1953, John Christopher, Blemish:
   

 


        Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!

  2007, Jeph Jacques, Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951