Saturday, 24 January 2009

• Koumpounophobia--it really exists.

  So, I've recently become obsessed with the movie Coraline, and am spending my free time watching every trailer I can find for it and so on. (I just listened to the audio book [readbytheauthorofcourse] and loved it.) When Mr. G posted a link to this video on his twitter I watched it. And I thought it was funny. And I liked the word koumpounophobia (who wouldn't?) so I looked it up. Lo and behold, there are many, many sites where people are commenting to say "OMG, I didn't know anyone else had this same fear!" and though some of them may be jokes, they can't all be. It seems really sad to me...I happen to really like, er, the objects this phobia fixates upon. (Don't want to spoil it for you.)
  So here's the video:
  
  
  
  And here are some sites about koumpounophobia. (read the comments!)
  
  
  //edit//
  On a totally different note, here is a double dactyl I just wrote off the top of my head (I am absurdly proud of it):
  
  Higgledy-piggledy
  Hannah is writing she's
  jotting down words without
  stopping to think:
  
  Neil-Gaimantically
  she is muse-channeling
  she doesn't care that her
  dactyl will stink.
  
  (Mantically comes from mantic which means [of or pertaining to, or having the power of divination]
  and since I had just thought of the phrase "Neil Gaimaniac" naturally the words stuck together in my head and gave the idea of writing as if divinely inspired. And thus my poem sprang into being with hardly any thought.)
  
  PLEASE LOVE THIS POEM AS I SPENT A GOOD FIFTEEN SECONDS WRITING IT.
  

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