CLOY
Monday, October 30, 2017
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
“Cloy.”
A word that I learned, while reading some play by William Shakespeare, is “cloy. “
It means to be sickened by sweet excesses, to surfeit. When one’s cup runs over, one cloys. When excess runs out the nose, one has cloyed. It is my hope, my faith, that those few of us who are blessed to be able to read regularly, might someday soon cloy of reading pure fiction, in favor of far more filling, nutritious, nonfiction.
I had cloyed of such salacious, cellophane, window-pane, fiction in the 1980’s.
To what end, someone may reasonably ask, “what for?” For the same reason that one does not eat, nor permit children to eat, sweets nor candy all-day! One cloys!
To go from a state of supreme knowledge in the arts and sciences, mathematics and philosophy, agriculture and animal husbandry, construction and navigation, to where we are now, fallen descendants of earth’s original people is proverbial, even if it was inevitable. It is shameful, if it is explainable. It is also remediable!
So long as we are knowledge –averse, our perverse position will remain the same. To progress to our next stage of development, fiction must cloy, must sublimate to nonfiction, as the preponderant reading pursuit for we too few who read at all.
CLOY!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloy
Monday, October 30, 2017
CLOY
CLOY
Monday, October 30, 2017
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
“Cloy.”
A word that I learned, while reading some play by William Shakespeare, is “cloy. “
It means to be sickened by sweet excesses, to surfeit. When one’s cup runs over, one cloys. When excess runs out the nose, one has cloyed. It is my hope, my faith, that those few of us who are blessed to be able to read regularly, might someday soon cloy of reading pure fiction, in favor of far more filling, nutritious, nonfiction.
I had cloyed of such salacious, cellophane, window-pane, fiction in the 1980’s.
To what end, someone may reasonably ask, “what for?” For the same reason that one does not eat, nor permit children to eat, sweets nor candy all-day! One cloys!
To go from a state of supreme knowledge in the arts and sciences, mathematics and philosophy, agriculture and animal husbandry, construction and navigation, to where we are now, fallen descendants of earth’s original people is proverbial, even if it was inevitable. It is shameful, if it is explainable. It is also remediable!
So long as we are knowledge –averse, our perverse position will remain the same. To progress to our next stage of development, fiction must cloy, must sublimate to nonfiction, as the preponderant reading pursuit for we too few who read at all.
CLOY!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloy