Today's word

intestine /in-TESS-tin / - internal; specifically : of or relating to the internal affairs of a state or country

Wow. This makes perfect sense.

Today's words

weltschmerz /VELT-shmairts/ - 1. often capitalized Weltschmerz : mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state  2. often capitalized Weltschmerz : a mood of sentimental sadness

I really can't believe I haven't entered this word in my blog before. I own this word.

coeval /koh-EE-vul/ - of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration

An older WOTD I missed, somehow. I've heard it before, but couldn't place it. 

Is there anybody . . . out there?

I wish you could tell me you don't give up on me.

Today's word

anastrophe /ə-ˈnas-trə-(ˌ)fē/ - inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect

Was sure I'd entered this word somewhere in this blog before. Didn't find it on a search though, so here it is, from today's Dictionary Devil puzzle. New to me, the related:

hysteron proteron /ˌhi-stə-ˌrän-ˈprä-tə-ˌrän, -tə-rən-ˈprä-tə-rən, -ˈprȯ-/ - a figure of speech consisting of the reversal of a natural or rational order (as in "then came the thunder and the lightning")

I love the etymology: Late Latin, from Greek, literally, (the) later earlier, (the) latter first

The Wall

When I was in my first college career (i.e., my partying career), I misinterpreted the meaning of Pink Floyd's tour de force in multiple ways. For instance, I thought Goodbye, Cruel World was a song about suicide. It wasn't until I read more about the album a couple decades later that I understood what they were actually conveying there.

Sometimes it's all I can do to not put the final brick in.

And sometimes I wonder if I haven't already.

Just the refrain

I can't connect at all with the rest of the song at this stage and status of my life, but the refrain really resonates with me:

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's meant to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
                                         - Goo Goo Dolls

Tangentially related: I'm a little worried about this reunion. Some blissfully ignorant classmate is going to bloviate about how Dr. Ford has forgotten who freakin' assaulted her, and I'm just not going to be able to keep my mouth shut. (How it's related: I don't want the world to see me . . . It isn't my job to make myself vulnerable to them just to fix their ignorance, as if I could.)