As an avid history fan who's dived deep into WW1, this sentence is pitch perfect. Concussed as the verb is brilliant. You survive a concussion, but the effects linger...
I don’t know! Still musing on the idea of the world in 1919, bewildered, confused, staggering about, trying to wrap its mind around what just happened…but, I’ll get back to you!
Play! Work and play as one, where the light and the lightning intersect!
(Also I think part of what makes this a powerful sentence is that the verb is normally I believe used as a noun, concussion, but is startling and fresh as a verb, implying a multiplicity of blows to the global head.)
"Concussion" is more commonly used than the verb, "concuss." So even though the writer didn't make up a new word, it feels fresh.
By the way, light/lightning is playing with the technique of "polyptoton"--a stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated. I love polyptoton!
As an avid history fan who's dived deep into WW1, this sentence is pitch perfect. Concussed as the verb is brilliant. You survive a concussion, but the effects linger...
I agree! I really loved this sentence and the verb and sent me to the page to play around with words again.
Nothing would ever be the same. (I love how this sentence does so much with only seven words. Verbs: the light, and the lightning.)
light/lightning. I love it! What are you making with it?
I don’t know! Still musing on the idea of the world in 1919, bewildered, confused, staggering about, trying to wrap its mind around what just happened…but, I’ll get back to you!
Good! Love that you're playing with this...
Play! Work and play as one, where the light and the lightning intersect!
(Also I think part of what makes this a powerful sentence is that the verb is normally I believe used as a noun, concussion, but is startling and fresh as a verb, implying a multiplicity of blows to the global head.)
"Concussion" is more commonly used than the verb, "concuss." So even though the writer didn't make up a new word, it feels fresh.
By the way, light/lightning is playing with the technique of "polyptoton"--a stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated. I love polyptoton!