Etymology:
Latin.
lit. Of one's or its own kind; peculiar. Also used attrib. †Also illiterately as n., a thing apart, an isolated specimen. (OED)
"But for the sheer density of material and effort, there is nothing like 'The Rose'. You may not look at it so much as gawk at it, in the chapel-like black chamber, with dramatic lighting, that it commands in the show. It strikes me as neither good art nor bad but a sui-generis folly that lends itself to mythic reflections."
- Peter Schjeldahl, "Flower power: A Jay DeFeo retrospective", 18 March 2013 The New Yorker
1 comment:
Haha I checked the "illiterately" because I thought it was a typo. I love the OED.
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