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| artist:Joseph Oriel Eaton |
Being an appreciant of the complex sentence structure, labyrinthine grammar, and plenteous punctuation, adjective, and adverb, of 19th century literature, I decided to read some short stories by the acclaimed Herman Melville so as to humor my pining for such literary device.
While reading “Temple First”
(of “The Two Temples”), I adventured upon the word “burglariously”.
I have noticed other 19th century wordsmiths of grandiose
application take nouns and adverbalize them for the effect of eccentricity.
I particularly enjoy this particular term for its unwieldy enunciation. “Burglariously”
just doesn’t roll off the tongue in ease. One must decidedly take a moment of
tongue-taming to coax it forth from the lips.
But, indeed, once practiced twice or thrice, the word does respond in obedience
and thereby arouse attention from unexpectant hearers and, invariably, critics
of creative, albeit, somewhat nugatory prose.
